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SELECTIVE  MICROFILM  EDITION 
PARTY 
(1911-1919) 


Thomas  E.  Jeffrey 
Senior  Editor 

Brian  C.  Shipley 
Theresa  M.  Collins 
Linda  E.  Endersby 
Editors 

David  A.  Ranzan 
Indexing  Editor 

Janette  Pardo 
Richard  Mizellc 
Peter  Mikulas 
Indexers 

Paul  B.  Israel 

Director  and  General  Editor 


Sponsors 

Rutgers,  The  State  University  of  New  Jersey 
National  Park  Service,  Edison  National  Historic  Site 
New  Jersey  Historical  Commission 


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Thomas  A.  Edison  Papers 

Rutgers,  The  State  University  of  New  Jersey 
endorsed  by 

National  Historical  Publications  and  Records  Commission 
18  June  1981 

Copyright  ©2007  by  Rutgers,  The  State  University 


All  rights  reserved.  No  part  of  this  publication  including  any  portion  of  the  guide  and 
index  or  of  the  microfilm  may  be  reproduced,  stored  in  a  retrieval  system,  or  transmitted  in  any 
form  by  any  means — graphic,  electronic,  mechanical,  or  chemical,  including  photocopying, 
recording  or  taping,  or  information  storage  and  retrieval  systems — without  written  permission  of 
Rutgers,  The  State  University  of  New  Jersey,  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey. 

The  original  documents  in  this  edition  are  from  the  archives  at  the  Edison  National 
Historic  Site  at  West  Orange,  New  Jersey. 


ISBN  978-0-88692-887-2 


THOMAS  A.  EDISON  PAPERS  STAFF  (2007) 

Director  and  General  Editor 

Paul  Israel 

Senior  Editor 
Thomas  Jeffrey 

Associate  Editors 
Louis  Carlat 
Theresa  Collins 

Assistant  Editor 
David  Hochfelder 

Indexing  Editor 
David  Ranzan 

Consulting  Editor 
Linda  Endersby 

Visiting  Editor 
Amy  Flanders 

Editorial  Assistants 
Alexandra  Rimer 
Kelly  Enright 
Eric  Barry 

Outreach  and  Development 
(Edison  Across  the  Curriculum) 

Theresa  Collins 

Business  Manager 
Rachel  Wcissenburgcr 


BOARD  OF  SPONSORS  (2007) 


Rutgers,  The  State  University  of  New  Jersey  National  Park  Service 

Richard  L.  McCormick  Maryanne  Gerbauckas 

ZivaGalili  Michelle  Ortwcin 

Ann  Fabian 

Paul  Clemens  Smithsonian  Institution 

Harold  Wallace 

New  Jersey  Historical  Commission 
Marc  Mappen 


EDITORIAL  ADVISORY  BOARD  (2007) 


Robert  Friedel,  University  of  Maryland 
Louis  Galambos,  Johns  Hopkins  University 
Susan  Hockey,  Oxford  University 
Thomas  P.  Hughes,  University  of  Pennsylvania 
Ronald  Kline,  Cornell  University 
Robert  Rosenberg,  John  Wiley  &  Sons 
Marc  Rothenberg,  Joseph  Henry  Papers,  Smithsonian  Institution 
Philip  Scranton,  Rutgers  University/Hagley  Museum 
Merritt  Roe  Smith,  Massachusetts  Institute  ofTcchnology 


FINANCIAL  CONTRIBUTORS 

We  thankfully  acknowledge  the  vision  and  support  of  Rutgers  University  and  the 
Thomas  A.  Edison  Papers  Board  of  Sponsors. 

This  edition  was  made  possible  by  grant  funds  provided  from  the  New  Jersey  Historical 
Commission,  National  Historical  Publications  and  Records  Commission,  and  The  National 
Endowment  for  the  Humanities.  Major  underwriting  has  been  provided  by  the  Barkley  Fund, 
through  the  National  Trust  for  the  Humanities,  and  by  The  Charles  Edison  Foundation. 

We  are  grateful  for  the  generous  support  of  the  IEEE  Foundation,  the  Hyde  &  Watson 
Foundation,  the  Martinson  Family  Foundation,  and  the  GE  Foundation.  We  acknowledge  gifts 
from  many  other  individuals,  as  well  as  an  anonymous  donor;  the  Association  of  Edison 
Illuminating  Companies;  and  the  Edison  Electric  Institute.  For  the  assistance  of  all  these 
organizations  and  individuals,  as  well  as  for  the  indispensable  aid  of  archivists,  librarians, 
scholars,  and  collectors,  the  editors  are  most  grateful. 


A  Note  on  the  Sources 
The  pages  which  have  been 
filmed  are  the  best  copies 
available.  Every  technical 
effort  possible  has  been 
made  to  ensure  legibility. 


PUBLICATION  AND  MICROFILM 
COPYING  RESTRICTIONS 

Reel  duplication  of  the  whole  or  of 
any  part  of  this  film  is  prohibited. 
In  lieu  of  transcripts,  however, 
enlarged  photocopies  of  selected 
items  contained  on  these  reels 
may  be  made  in  order  to  facilitate 
research. 


UNBOUND  CLIPPINGS  SERIES 


Unbound  Clippings  Series 


These  unbound  clippings  coverthe  period  191 1-191 9.  Most  of  the  items 
were  sent  to  Edison  by  clippings  services,  although  a  few  may  have  been 
subsequently  added  to  the  collection  by  archivists.  They  are  primarily  taken 
from  newspapers  and  popular  magazines,  but  there  are  also  clippings  from 
Edison  company  publications,  technical  journals,  and  other  printed  sources. 
The  articles  pertain  to  a  variety  of  subjects,  including  the  development  and 
promotion  of  Edison's  inventions,  the  activities  of  his  companies,  his  role  on 
the  Naval  Consulting  Board  during  World  War  I,  and  the  personal  affairs  of 
Edison,  his  wife  Mina  Miller  Edison,  and  other  family  members.  In  addition  to 
brief  newspaper  accounts,  there  are  a  few  longer  articles  and  profiles  based 
on  in-depth  interviews  with  Edison,  written  either  by  journalists  or  by  Edison's 
assistants.  Also  included  are  obituaries  of  Edison  family  members  and  former 
associates  and  advertisements  for  Edison  products.  Some  of  the  clippings  are 
speculative  stories  based  on  rumors  that  were  untrue.  Examples  include 
reports  that  Edison  had  won  the  Nobel  Prize  and  that  he  was  building  a  spirit 
phone  to  talk  to  the  dead. 

Numerous  clippings  for  1911-1919  can  also  be  found  in  the  Scrapbook 
Series.  However,  only  the  years  1915-1916  are  thoroughly  covered  in  the 
scrapbooks;  apart  from  one  scrapbook  about  the  family's  European  tour  in 
1911,  there  are  few  Edison-related  clippings  for  1911-1912  or  1917-1919. 
There  are  also  several  significant  chronological  gaps  in  the  unbound 
clippings,  such  as  for  September-December  1917.  In  that  regard,  it  should  be 
noted  that  Edison  made  an  effort  to  prevent  stories  about  his  war-related  work 
from  appearing  in  newspapers. 

Because  oftheirfragileand  deteriorating  condition,  all  of  the  newspaper 
clippings  for  1911-1919  have  been  photocopied  by  archivists  at  the  Edison 
National  Historic  Site,  and  the  originals  have  been  discarded.  Some  of  these 
photocopies  may  be  difficult  to  read  because  of  the  acidic  paper  on  which  the 
original  clippings  was  printed  and  because  of  the  adhesive  tape  used  by 
earlier  archivists  to  mount  them,  which  has  yellowed  over  the  years.  At  the 
time  the  clippings  were  photocopied,  many  of  the  original  tags  supplied  by  the 
clippings  service  were  removed  and  replaced  with  typewritten  citations.  The 
information  in  these  citations  is  occasionally  incorrect. 


The  clippings  are  arranged  in  folders  by  year  and,  within  each  folder,  in 
rough  chronological  order  by  month.  A  strict  chronological  arrangement  is  not 
possible,  since  several  clippings  from  different  days  of  the  month  are  often 
photocopied  onto  the  same  sheet  of  paper.  In  such  cases,  the  pages  are 
arranged  according  to  the  date  of  the  earliest  clipping  on  the  page. 

Because  many  articles  and  news  items  were  widely  reprinted,  only  the 
earliest,  most  detailed,  or  best  surviving  copy  of  each  story  has  been 
selected.  Other  clippings  not  selected  include  local  advertising,  publicity,  and 
promotions  for  Edison  products;  stories  about  motion  pictures  released  or  in 
production  under  the  Edison  name;  editorials  that  casually  refer  to  Edison; 
and  generic  or  repetitive  biographical  accounts.  Also  not  selected  is  a  series 
of  humorous  cartoons  by  Fontaine  Fox  called  "The  Remarkable  Discoveries 
of  Thomas  Edison  Jr.,"  which,  despite  the  name,  are  entirely  unrelated  to 
Thomas  Edison  or  his  oldest  son.  An  example  can  be  found  among  the 
unbound  clippings  for  November  1912. 


Unbound  Clippings  Series 
Clippings  (1911) 

These  clippings  cover  the  year  1911.  Most  of  the  items  are  taken  from 
newspapers,  but  there  are  several  longer  magazine  articles  as  well.  Included 
are  clippings  relating  to  the  reorganization  of  the  National  Phonograph  Co. 
and  several  other  Edison  companies  into  Thomas  A.  Edison,  Inc.;  the 
outcome  of  patent  cases  and  lawsuits;  and  the  demonstration  of  new  storage 
batteries  for  submarines  and  electric  cars.  Also  included  are  articles  about 
Edison's  contracts  with  the  Anderson  Electric  Car  Co.  and  European 
representative  John  F.  Monnot,  as  well  as  his  agreement  with  the  Nernst 
Lamp  Co.  of  Pittsburgh  to  supply  lamps  for  his  home  kinetoscope.  Other 
articles  discuss  Edison's  widely  discussed  (and  sometimes  criticized)  plans 
to  make  concrete  houses  and  concrete  furniture;  his  ideas  about  the  use  of 
motion  pictures  in  education  and  politics;  and  his  call  to  reform  anti-trust 
legislation. 

There  are  also  clippings  pertaining  to  the  Edison  family  trip  to  Europe, 
including  visits  to  England,  France,  Germany,  Switzerland,  and  Austria;  a 
controversial  article  by  Edison  on  the  immortality  of  the  soul;  his  attendance 
at  the  New  York  Electrical  Exposition  at  which  he  received  the  gift  of  a  large 
copper  cube;  and  the  local  social  activities  of  his  wife,  Mina  Miller  Edison.  In 
addition,  there  are  articles  regarding  the  deaths  of  Edison's  longtime 
associate  Josiah  C.  Reiff,  his  brotheNn-law  Robert  Anderson  Miller,  and  his 
aunt  Julia  Tilden  Edison;  the  marriage  of  his  cousin  Edith  Clarissa  Edison; 
and  a  murder-suicide  in  one  of  the  offices  of  the  National  Phonograph  Co. 

Approximately  10  percent  of  the  clippings  have  been  selected.  In 
addition  to  numerous  duplicate  versions  of  most  of  the  stories,  the  unselected 
items  include  articles  not  directly  related  to  Edison  on  subjects  such  as  motion 
pictures,  phonograph  recordings,  and  electric  automobiles. 

Other  clippings  for  1911  can  be  found  in  Cat.  44,498  (Scientific 
American)  and  Cat.  44,447  (European  Tour)  in  the  Scrapbook  Series. 


'PHONOGRAPH  -  GENERAL" 


ST.  LOUIS  (HO)  GLOBE— DEMOCRAT  HARTFORD  (CT)  TIMES 

Friday,  January  13,  1911  Jan.  13,  1911 


NEW  YORK  (Nit)  TELEGRAPH 
Sun.,  Jan.  22,  1911 


music  trade  review 
Jan.  28,  1911 


NEWARK  (NJ)  CAl.L 
Sun.  Jail.  09,  1911 


.  Wlillo  coufttmn- 
not  boon  obtained,  yet 
surprising- nit 


|, Tonkin- 

'PhonoKnvnb_intc 
•  tliTTrents  Con 

!*ucK°now»8  would  not  bo  «urprlslng-  na 
ttho  aupportiglvcn  to  tho  Columbia  peoplo 
ttiyv  independent  ronnutncturcra  lms:  .not 

hotyUhe  Columbia  came  Into  possession, 
of'tbo  ball  Interest..  ;  • 

Stffho  claims  for  tills  patcut  are  tor  ftj 
combined  mechanism  tlmt  ■will  cnuse^iuo 
interval  of  ilSuusinalion  ami  rxi>"*uifi.  or 

■r  '  \  ,  , 
«,;il!uii.inntion  to  Jiredoininnliu  nndfjdo 

1 1 1 1§§  W« ' 


PROMOTION  FOR  GEO.  F.  SCULL. 

George  1\  Scull,  who  since  May,  11*10,  lias  been 
assistant  to  General  Manager  Carl  II.  Wilson,  of 
the  National  Phonograph  Co,  Orange.  N.  J.,  has 
been  selected  by  Mr.  Edison  to  manage  hi*  Kfisun 
5.tOtagcJ3attcry  Co.,  succeeding  E.  1?.  Dodge  in 
that  position.  The  plant  of  the  battery  company 
is  also  located  in  Orange  immediately  aljaccnt  to 
that  of  the  National  Co.,  and  the  1iui««ss  has 
grown  to  tremendous  proportions  willth  the  past 
year,  the  present  factory  and  office  orce  being 
three  times  that  of  a  year  ago.  The  p  oiuotioii  ol 
Mr.  Scull  to  the  office  of  general  Manager  is  a 
well-merited  recognition  of  his  spleimid  executive 
ability,  and  the  ninny  friends  lie  lias  made 

end  of  the  National  Co.  will  he  glad  1"  hear  « 


tSSEX  CORPORATION  LOSES  ~ 
POINT  IN  FEDERAL  COURT 


& 


Ibcyj-ncfd 


'Cr°”  h”££SS 


jiorary  Injunction*  on  the  ground  i  that, 
tholrs'  without1  paying  tho  ^license  iWoa,' 
that*. tho  license* agreement* had  bcoi^ro- 

juifl;  ttio^Amertcnn  Company  would  suffoij 

sprung  up  wheroby  tho  Victor,  peoplo  ro-l 
fused*longcf\to  payJlqenBO.-feoff.-arfd -i^t** 
tlngUup-:  another  .patent' •tb^show-' that 
.nr,  Morigfijipay^jlcenho  to  *  tfab 


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"MOTION  PICTURE  -  GENERAL" 


ORANGE  (NJ)  aiRONICLE 
SATURDAY,  JAN.,  21,  1911 

GREAT  CROWD'  AT 
ORANGE  HIGH  SCHOOL1 

lit  Collected  Long  Before  the 
Doors  Opened  Last  Night 


SEE  FREE  MOVING  PICTURES: 


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The-  Columbian  Magazine 

Vol.  Ill  JANUARY,  1911  No.  4 


jjSrtoTPcar’ss  !5umlm- 


THOMAS  A.  EDISON 

on- 

immortality 


THE  GREAT  INVENTOR  DECLARES  IMMORTALITY  OF 
TIIE  SOUL  IMPROBABLE 


■HESE  arc  clays  of  bold  ami 
startling  thought.  Each 
year  adds  its  detail  to  man's 

and  the  discoverers  of  deep  things  are 
generally  heroes  in  their  tvay.  Science, 


it  sensational  announcement 
made  in  years  by  an  acknowledged  lead¬ 
er  of  the  world's  best  thought  came,  a 
few  weeks  since,  in  an  interview  which 
Thomas  A.  Edison  granted  t< 
this  the  famous  n  ’ 


phonograph  and  t 
greatest  of  the  ( 
of  electrical  . 
immortality  of  n 

the  possibility  time  cnrnnaiuums  con¬ 
ception  of  the  Gpd  of  Hosts  could  be 
in  the  least  accurate,  denied— oh,  many 
things. 

It  is  my  privilege,  through  The  Coi.um- 


1UAN,  to  offer  to  the  world  for  the  first 
time  the  famous  man's  elaboration  of 

I  make  one  detail  clear.  Among  the 
celebrated  thinkers  who  took  issue  wide 

Thomson,  author  of  "The  Brain  and 
Personality."  which  Mr.  Edison,  himself, 
declares  to  lie  the  ablest  work  yet  issued 
cm  the  subject,  and  Dr.  Thomson,  in  ids 
arguments,  assumed  that  Mr.  Edison  de¬ 
nies  Supreme  Intelligence. 

"Dr.  Thomson's  inference  was  wrong," 
Mr.  Edison  has  since  told  me,  "I  never 
have  denied  Supreme  Intelligence.  What 
1  have  denied  and  what  my  reason  com¬ 
pels  me  to  deny,  is  the  existence  of  a 
Being  throned  above  us  as  a  god,  direct¬ 
ing  our  mundane  affairs  in  detail,  regard¬ 
ing  ns  as  individuals,  punishing  its,  re¬ 
warding  us  as  human  judges  might.  I 

that  I  deny  the  merit  of  the  world's 
great  moral  teachers— Confucius,  Bud¬ 
dha,  Christ.  They  were  great  men— 
truly  wonderful.  Their  teachings  all  are 


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MUSIC  TRADE  REVIEW 


HUNUftx,  I'epcuaEV  un 


<o‘-  ' 

■ «  . 

SUNDAY.  FEBRUARY  12,  .1 

111. 

RECALLS  BIRTH  OF 

village,  now  a  branch  of  tlio  Wabash. 

Milan,  in  ft  wny,  roverea  Thomas  A. 
Kdlaon,  although  to  talk  with  Its  jcsl- 
douts  Is  to  elicit 

THOWIASA.  EDISON 

thn  Mllunlleft'  feelings  bjMKlylng  tlu4 
vlllago  a  wlilo  berth.  .  $  \\  „*7 

Milan 'Man  Tells  of  Day  In¬ 
ventor’s  Father  Told  Him 
'It’s  a  Boy,’  Years  Ago. 

Says  Villagers  Remember 
Wizard-Liked' to  Loaf 
Immensely. 

Feb.  11,  1911 


RECORD  BRUSHE^  FOR  MACHINES. 


r  Blackman  Patent) 


matter,  the  National  I’linnnj'raph  Co.  will  in  th> 
near  future  ripiip  several  of  the  higher  pricei 
styles  of  JwIisiiU»nJjVii"Krai»li.s  with  record  hnishc 
of  proven  merit  ami  licensed  under  the  lllaekmai 

hrushes.  It  is  believed  that  the  new  idea  will  provi 
very  popular  with  both  the  trade  ami  the  public. 


EDISON  ONOESiRIL 
OF  DENVER^WYER;  > 
CAUSED  EXPL  OS  I O  N 


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Cosmopolitan 

Vol.  L  FEBRUARY. 


.put.  lit. 


The  Wonderful  New 


Some  Startlin'* 


iccies 


By  Thomas 


World  Ahead  of  Us 


Described 


of  the  Future  ; 

A.  Edison 


posed  by  Mr.  Edison  for  the  Cosmopo 


.  .. 


"REIFF/  Josigli  C." 


NEW  YORK  TIMES 
Mar.  09,  1911 


BROOKLYN  (Nit) 

'l'hurs.  ,  March  09,  1911  March  02,  1911 


I  .TTieirr  jUifcL)  iNtmEVENT: 


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MARCH  2.  1011.  1 


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ROCHESTER  (Nit)  HERALD 
March  03,  1911 


NEWARK  (MJ)  MORNING  STAR 
Friday,  Marcli  03,  1911 


Me  CONTROLS 
IPISON  COMBINE 


ELMIRA  (M!f)  STAR— GAZETTE 


SaLurday,  March  1U,  1911 


i  lN  EDISON  PLANT! 

(Hotheaded  Lover  Who  Had 
; .  ;.'Been  Discharged,  Retiumjto, 
fe’Offlce  and  Kills  ;6ii-l— Tien'J 


£  l  fSL  ™ 

Bg&gss&sM 

Ma.  — *UI —  was  lic&dMl 


:o  witnesses- to - 

‘'Don't':  from*' Miss  ncca;>ml.th'onr'.two 
jslKjtsWn  Quick  succession*:,  iiglffi&l 

ferlSsSSSSS 

through  the-  oyo > and  .sent^tlio  sefcdnd 1 


■  MARCH  3,  T911 


EDISON  CICE1S 


Ne^^nnipny  with  $2,000,000 
Capital -to  Handle  Products 
’ ,  of  Famous  Inventor; 


The  Edison  Portland  Cement  Com¬ 
pany  and  tho  Edison  Storage  Battory 


Edison's  inventive  genius,  w 


rer,  who  has  been  j 
tho  [last  throo  years:  Carl  H.  Wilson, 
secretary;  William  Polser  and  Horry  F. . 
Miller,  the  last  mimed  private  secretary 


-VARIETY  (NY)— 
March  01,  1911 


"THOMAS  A.  EDISON,  JNC. 

-  ORGANIZATION" 

MUSIC  TRADE  REVIEW  (NY) 

NEW  YORK  (NY)  AMERICAN 

March  04,  1911 

Monday,  Mar.  ',  1911 

THOS.  A.  EDISON  INCORPORATED. 

flLSOFM. 

Succeeding  the  National  Phonograph  Col- 
All  the  Various  Concerns  in  Which  Mr.  Edl- 
son  Is  Interested  Arc  Merged  Under  This 

GIRL  flJID  SLAYEH 

Corporate  Name — An  Excellent  Movo. 

(Special  lo  The  Review.) 

Trenton,  N.  J.,  March  2,  lull. 

1'u-day  Hie  National  Phonograph  Co.,  Orange, 
ilcil  with  the  Secretary  of  Stale  an  amended 

Her  Funeral  Crowds  a  Church; 

His  Is  from  Nearly  Empty, 

... .  Undertaker's  Shop, 

COU(if  TOLSTOY/ 
IWJI^L  yiSIT-TRENTON 


"PHONOGRAPH  -  GENERAL 

MUSIC  TRADE  (NY)  REVIEW 
April  07,  1911 


RECORD  OF  BRYAN'S  TRUST  SPEECH. 


\  — 


In  his  brief  filed  in 
in  the  ease  brought 
oust  the  Internationa 
souri,  the  defendant  q 

basis  of  an  argument, 
brief  said,  "Mr.  Brv;i 
tendency  of  trusts  is 
the  prices  of  raw  ma 
manufactured  product 


MUSIC  TRAUE  (NY)  REVIEW 
April  07#  1911 

TALKING  MACHINE  EXPORTS 

The  Figures  for  February  FV."^lled— Reports 
‘  .  .Gain  In  All  Departments  of 
me  Interesting  Figures. 

■'  Washington,  U.  C,  April  <!,  Mil. 

In  file  summary  ofcxjiorts-aml  imports  of  the 
commerce  of  Hie  United  Slates  for  (lie  month  of 
February  (the  latest  period  for  whic.i  it  lias  been 
compiled),  which  lias  just  been  issued  by  the  llu- 
rcau  of  Statistics  of  llie  Department  of  Commerce 
and  Labor,  the  following  interesting  figures  rclat- 

Tlic  total  "exports  of  talking  machines,  records 
and  supplies  for  February,  Mil,  amounted  to  $M1,- 
001,  as  compared  with  $177,070  for  tbe  same  month 
of  the  previous  year.  The  eight  mouths’  exporta¬ 
tions  of  talking  machines,  records  and  supplies 
amounted do  $-2,0GU.!>0:i. 


Show  Strong 
Inf^So 


MUSIC  TRADE  (NIC)  REVIEW 


April  22,  1911 


“DAY  EG  AS”  THE  TITLE 

)f  a  New  Retail  Talking  Machine  House  Just 
Opened  at  405  Broadway. 

D&vcgas  is  the  title  of  a  new  concern  at  <05 
Broadway,  New  York,  that  will  handle  the  hues 
>f  Thomas  A.  Edison,  Inc.,  and  the  Viclor  Talking 
MaSmws*eo:ras"dcjilcrs.  The  store  opened  last 
Saturday,  and  besides  talking  machines,  etc.,  will 
ilso  carry  a  large  stock  of  sporting  goods.  Harry 
Davcga,  son  of  S.  B.  Davcga,  of  the  S.  B.  Davcga 
Co.,  126  University  place,  this  city,  is  the  .presi¬ 
dent,  and  P.  M.  Lopez,  secretary  of  the  corpora¬ 
tion-  Harry  Davcga  has  been  in  the  business  all 
his  life  and  was  the  active  manager  of  S.  B. 
Davcga  Co.,  a  position  he  filled  whit  skill  and 


great  ability.  The  success  of  the  new! concern  is  a 
foregone  conclusion,  as  the  locatiorj  is  excellent 
from  every  point.  The  Review  tcirers  its  good 
wishes  to  Davcgas.  { 

S.  B.  Davcga,  president  of  S.  B.  Davcga  Co., 
the  well-known  Victor  and  Edison  jo, hers— in  fact, 
the  oldest  jobbers  in  New  York— returned  rr--*n*l»* 
from  Seattle,  Wash.,  where  he  had  gone  in  Feb¬ 
ruary  to  look  over  conditions  in  that  hustling  city 
of  the  Pacific  Northwest  Mr.  Davcga  owns  a 
valuable  block  of  real  estate  in  the  heart  of  Seattle 
and  therefore  is  personally  interested  in  its  prog¬ 
ress  and  welfare. 


MUSIC  TRADE  (NY)  REVIEW 
April  OB#  1911 
A  CLEVER  WINDOW  DISPLAY 


ing  of  a  completely 'cijttipjicd  office  with  a  sten¬ 
ographer  at  work  all  day  transcribing  from  rec¬ 
ords.  On  the  exterior  of  tile  window  was  drawn 
in  while  with  an  air  pencil  the  figure  of  a  business 
man  dictating  into  the  Edison  business  phono- 

Edison  business  phonograph."  A  drawing  of  a 
dock  showed  the  short  Edison  day,  ending  at 
three  o'clock,  as  compared  with  the  old  business 

ceivcd  by  Manager  l'opplcr,  of  the  talking  ma¬ 
chine  department,  attracted  much  attention  from 
the  pnssersby  and  a  number  of  excellent  prospects 
were  secured  from  among  those  who  realized  the 


MUSIC  TRAUE  (MI)  REVIEW 
April  29,  1911 


■‘RUSH"  BUSINESS  AT  THE  EDISON  PLAN! 


UTICA  (NX)  GEODE 
April  01,  1911 
TCMaclUn^ricUiy 


erSiusipJi", 

'Jjjgrcr  “'t'”  K;n£23k5, 


C4)J 


"STORAGE  BATTERY11 

BRIDGEPORT  (CT)  STANDARD  Thursday,  May  O'!,  1911 


tidison’s  New  Railless  Street 
'  Car  Really  a  Huge  Automobile 


TBIDOftS  A.  EDISON,  INC. 


GENERAL" 


NEWARK  (NJ)  EVENING  STAB 
Sal:.,  May  27,  1911 


155*1  IS 


Wizard’s  DauRliter,  Supported, 

Aj-*Spte«didiiCompany, 

Seen  in  Comedy.  ;  ' 


™  LaJt  (".boS 

»>•  Jerome  lv.  Jerome .  ""  p 

intelligent  conception  o 


NEWARK  (NJ)  NEWS 
Friday,  May  10,  1911 


MUSIC  TRADE  (NX)  REVIEW 
May  06,  1911 


j  SOME  CHANGES  IN  EXECUTIVE  STAFF. 

Do\liccr,  sales  manager  of  Hie  Thomay'A 


ri|i  fur  several  clays.  A  number 
executive  stall  of  the  company 
been  made,  and  C.  Dyke,  of  tbc  legal  staff, 
•signed  to  become  vnmieeted  cvlllc  a  firm  ran 


SUSSEX  (NJ)  RECORDER 
Friday/  June  02,  1911 


"CEMENT" 


EftST  OUANGE  (HJ)  RECOUP 
le  24,  1911 


I  EDISON  VILLAGE  RUINS.  ,  . 

Litigation  Now  In  Order  Over  the  Debris 
of  tlie  Vanished  Village  '  .  j 
i  Not  many  yeara  ago  there  wao^ulto 
Jo  populoua  villago  at  Etlistm,  on  tho, 
'mountain  east  of  Ogdensburg.-  Thero 
’.was  a  considerable  number  of  houses; 
[and  fomilies  there,  und  peoplo  visjted  it; 


process- in ven tea  oy  air.  Edison.  ‘  The 
process  included  a  chute  100  feet  high, 
through  :  whiclk  iron-laden  earth  -was 
dropped,'  tho  iron  being  attracted  by  a 
powerful , magnet  along  the  aides.-  .The 
refuse  earth  was  then  cleaned  away, 
the  cement  cut  off  tho  magnet  amithe 
iron.ore  allowed  to  drop  .into  cars.  /When 
iron  ore, sold  for  $7.50  a  ton  tho  concern 
made. money;  but  when  the  Mansaha 
Range.  a  veritable  mountain  of  iron, 
was  v‘ discovered  in  the  Lake  Superior 
country,  1  the  price  of  ore  dropped  to 
$3.60  a  ton  and  the  New  Jersey  and 
Pennsylvania  Concentration  Company 

»^rs2neld  by  Mesial 

against  the  company,  one  iUl"W44fUUU 
and  the  other  for  $181,000.  Receiver 
Perkins  rejected  the  first  claim  as  being 
outlawed  by  the  atatuto  of  limitation, 
Mr.’  Edison  not  having  tried  to. collect  it 
■for  six  years.  'f 

'  Five  hundred  men  wore  employed 
when  the  plant  was  in  operation.  Mr. 
Perkins  has: been  receiver  of  tho  plant 
three  and  'a  half  years. 


| 


j 


[>Ki3 


NEWARK  (NJ)  EVE.  STAR 


"SJ.UKAOE  UAllbRjf 
PATERSON  (tO)  GUARDIAN 
Tuesday,  June  27,  1911 


NEW  YORK  MORN.  SUN 
Wed.,  June  20,  J.9J.1 


iEOISON  TESTS 
PTtETRIC  CAR 


END  OF  TROLLEY  CARS  NEAR 


NEWARK  (NJ)  NEWS 
Monday,  June  26,  19JUL 


BATTERY  A,  IN  SUSSEX, 
OPENS  "CAMP  EDISON" 


Pago  I 


PHONOGRAPH  -  GENKRAI." 
CHIUSTJAN  SCIENCE  MONITOR  BOSTON  (HA) 


Saturday.  June  10,  1911 


RECORDS-;  NEED  DELICATE  SKILL? 

I  Interesting  Prac/ss  i'r&Edisbn'-IVorks  Deals  With  Phonograph ■  Problems,  Onl^  1 
Y  ■  wf.tjbo  Thousandifi  of  an  Inch 

mm j 


phoilogruph 

nation  and  to  t Ms-  day , tho  umoliltie  itrtcl1 

is  regarded  **  the" j  . .  ... 

Before  **Kd a«wr*!md'‘gone.tjfor;s'in *>ef  Vqnietblng  complex,  ..  .....  w .,™ 

footing  his:  invciittwr-hpwpm^br^^j  ^lionocrnph  cylinder.'  ,  Edison's  qxpon- 
mat  ‘ t he  ?mil  ly  miin'elpuVItliing^qX* tin  |tuce ‘Kvith  the  phonograph  has  givcm-,hr(nj 
rciord;  *A  p^noj{raplt;^^ic^^jp  ji'prQfpund  set  *r ’  *u~ 

lla'parta  are  Hiniplc.  Jt  liaa  been  refined  iftWauch  comj - . .  ,  i 

hut  making  it  is  only  a  matter  of, i  a?  ’iar.'vwhich  can  distinguish  the  harmony? 
icrobiliig  parts,  like  any  other  mcchanl 

.But  phonograph  records  ...^  ..r.  .y^.r„f  ...# - 

'  :  T  r  •*.  ^  'thing  .like  . .  , 

lnimite  ,  v  |  can.  This  is  the  mold  from  which  repro-j 
possibilities  ran. oft  ductlons  ot  the  nnwlcr  record  an  not, 
iM»vj.  ^i»»i.  ho'  iiFcd  .paniflined  for. sale.  -  " 

lieu  till fritl;  then  waxes,  the*/"}  1  Until  recently  the  casting  was  done  by. 
eimps,  of.  which  master -ripjord^  hand^a  boy  lowering^  tho  ^ohl^iiOol 

i^V"1  c®")^aV  hcoulpo/' harder  than  tlut  of-  tiic 

»t  began'  .over  llmiwhole  |brl^  paster  record  and  of  wholly  different 
_C  ui.  ,  i  •  nl  ,  „l3  to  L>«:  tried  ciiurocicr,  iu  d<  durublo  rt  or  os  with  a 
\  .•combinations,  .including  the  fbesilj  hundred  threads  to  the  inch,  givuig  two 
ibstohccH.  .These  ,  yield  .Bntisfaptbryj  minutes  of  entertainment.  Edison  .  want? 

liniithBit'hftl  ed  a  four-minute  record  of  tho  same  size. 

\  He  got  it,  finally,  by  . 


Sjison  Sp-} 


f  ^ingredient  of '  records  .  toda$r.‘ 

x,  ext raviwl. from  brown fcoulj 
. ie  umber  of  anteditu-1 

Evidently  nature's  products  in  thin  linej 
were  exha  list  pd.  Now  his  chemists  hayh) 
pushed -far  into  the  aromatic  scrii»vOf^ 

ty  n  t  h  clic  ;“coin po.”  Not  long  ngo.ltali  * 
chemistry:  made  synthetic -attar  of  .rot 
of  s these .’hydrocarbons,  and!  that  pro; 
isca  well' for  the  ideal  phonograph  I'ccordij 


Team  Work  Is  ;Ncedcd  •  v  ; 

k:IhSny0>diffc”nt  routine.  ,haM^| 
Using  cast,  tbo.reconb*  aro  spiui.  Instead 
of  bond-work  by  ono  boy/  tliero  is.o  nm- 
chino' run  .by- a  crew  of  eight  me-  **“ 
play  together  liko  a  baseball  tea 
the  quality  onhoir ^team-play  uffc. 


in  industrial  team  work,  li 
)r° vumlcv'i  1  le  u rtis  l mp kc'  everybody  plays  more  or  less  to 


>»  toy  ..us.  .r _ -jnipOBitioh'.;l 

chill’  tho’  hoV’4-*comp^Ar^yinin^^ir:j 


•olving'.'  dnini*8;  thutTwiiirltvit  at  ,*  rngnj 
it  - is  fuirly.  off, :  this i-uiar] 

•  spaco  betwcbii  tho  jiuoldj 

...... . Centrifugal  motipn^thon; 

forcos  liquid  composition  into  every,  ttnl.^ 
i^t  crevice  of ; tho  mold.  These  indon-j 

of  inn'  inch.  -The  surface  of  a  foiuj?nil»- 
iitf  record  looks  like  line  watered  silk.. 
When  the  spinning  1ms  tilled  thu,mpld 

of  cold*  water.  These  temper!  the  record 
surface' us  steel  is  tempered.  Tt  is  . .done 
sol  rapidly  that  the  inside  of  the  .  record 
is  still  molten.  The  rest  ofj  the  passage 
through  this  piachinc  is  given-  to  eqeling 

out  at  the  /proper  temperature.  i>  '.  ; .  4 

New  Men  Spoil  .Much  :.-. 

Eiglit  men  work  this’ machine.  -;  If  one 
is  a -new  hand,-  production  w iiy,* be -a bout 


fcwith  tile  cre .  . 

j'  -Tho  "firatVwihtfr  thebc  records  were  . 
| subjected  to  freezing  weather, ynmp.laiiUs . 
hvlgaii 'to.cbmcMii '  from  ngeiits  in  'the 

if,'«V-'Ab,;I]ld,bottom  o'f. Tach  1,0.0  un. 

-i*‘ — ‘  •  •• , 

.  AlftiSk-  two.inontfjs.to.  tlnd  und  .remedy  i 
•£^^tibie^.w)dcK':*wa»  d«*.  io  tiny 

globules  of  water  being  whirled  into  the  j 
pUcn;  composition  through  somqTeak-l 
|ci  ttiid  k‘opt;  there  until,; the^-otnpodi-  j 
IJlpn" cooled,. \yhen  it-  was  imprisoned. 1 
^Months  la  tor  zero  weather  i  n  Minnesota 
►tib-ncd.  that-  globule-  to  :icc  and  expiin- 
«sion- burst  off -a  fnigmcnt:of  lho«  record 
Lsurfoce.  The  result  was- frozen  phono- 
j  graph,  music.  Somebody  reminded  the 
superintendent  that  architecture  is 

ti^Siiice  .this  .-trouble.- was  remedied,  a. 


b'Hcni timber,  tlio 
lined  ..with  ^se  veral 
tntlo'iiH,  representing 


i  test.  •  No  diniculty 

going;  to.get  i(  out  ? 
•era!  iniliion  delicate  indon- 


'IIATTERX,  STORAGE” 


MEM  YORK  PRESS 
Sunday i  June  11/  J-9-U- 

ELECTRIC  AUTOS  TO 
CONTEST  WEDNESDAY 

Suburbauing  Tour  to  Prove  the 
Efficiency  of  This  type.  - 

•WOMEN  MAY  DRIVE 

Secret  Time  Sohedulo  Set  by  Thomas 
V  A,  Edison  "Will  Evolve 


NEW  VOHK  MAIL 


Saturday/  June  12 ,  19J..E 

TEST  ELECTRIC  AUTOS . 
IN  A  SUBURBAN  TRIAL 

Novel  Features  in  Competive  Tour  to  Demonstrate  Practical 
.Service  for  the  Motor.  Charged  with  “Juice”— Metropolitan 
!  y  ';  Blue  Book  Out— Notes  of  the  Industry' and  Trade.' 


OUftMGE  (NJ)  CIIROMICLE 
Mon- 1  July  10 ,  J.9J.1 


?  (PA)  PUI1I.IC  LEDGER 
Wed.,  July  12,  1911 


LQ3  AUGEI.ES  (CA)  EXWUMglt 
L- ri  - ,  July  07,  1911 


FIRE  DOES  MUCH  • 
DftWhGE  M  EDISOM^; 

Man  lnlurad  By,  Explosion  Ip 
..  Chlorine-Building  ; 

r  ec  6r&*  r  u  Nijkt  I 

_  ...  , 

lir.vyas  Soon  Under  !_Contrj^:B!a| 
f| '(Crowd  Gathered.  {  .  jgyfel 

'lltoralms  when  box  'A  “SpiS 

Ihriho!  exorcise  winson,  mmI 
(alarm  sounded  w .  *  *"'p 


•Northftuld  ai 


lire  headquarters  and! 


10  lulmito  ljad  wUg^wjgjgJ 


i,  unhitched  the  h 


Fleming. 

‘iio  bull  dint. 

.•as  hudly  -burned. 


by-SS.tjMitJ 

. lire  men  soon 

Hamea •uinter  control.- 


INVENTORS  AND 

PNEUMATIC  tires 


(EDISON  TESTS  NEW  CARl 


Inventor  Well  Ploneod  With  Equlpnuo| 


MEW  YORK  (NY)  WOULD 
Sun-,  July  02,  1UJ.J. 


RECORDS  MADE  OF  NEARLY 


^gpCT  INDIAN  DIALECTS. 


NORFOLK  (VA)  V'GftM  PII.’T 


Sunday,  July  23,  1911 


i  HOW  A ■  GREAT  INVENTION  \ 

BY  EDISON  WAS  LOST | 

_ : 

Sepenucd  Fiber  By .  a  Liquid  Compound,  But  j 


ASHLAND  (PA)  TELEGRAM  ALTOONA  (PA)  MIRROR  YOUNGSTOWN  (OH)  VINDICATOR 


ctivc  season,  but  we  are  very  well  satisfied, 
re  busy  with  our  fall  plans,  and  expect  to  lucre 


NEW  CENTER  OF  POPULATION. 


The  center  of  population  of  the  United  States 
is  -1  Vi  miles  south  of  Unionvillc,  Monroe  County, 
Indiana,  according  to  a  Census  Bureau  announcc- 


f  the  181KMD00  decade.  This  acceleration  of  the 
cstward  movement  is  attributed  by  census  o  di¬ 
als  principally  to  the  growth  of  the  Pacific  and 
ic  southwestern  States. 

The  geographical  center  of  the  United  States  is 


ENJOY  MRS.  CLARK’S  LECTURE. 


that  city,  where,  at  the  present  time,  the  largi 
educational  body  in  the  world  is  in  session.  M 
Clark  is  demonstrating  the  Victor  in  conncc.i 
with  her  department— the  “Public  School  a 
Educational  Department" — where  pages  arc  c< 
turned— Japanese  and  Chinese  girls— and  they  : 


INJUNCTION  RESTRAINS  PRICE  CUTTING. 

The  American  Graphophonc  Co.  (Columbia 
Phonograph  Co.)  have  secured  a  perpetual  decree 
and  injunction  against  the  Arnold  Jewelry  &  Music 
Co.,  Ottumwa,  la.,  for  cutting  prices.  Another 


Indianapolis,  I  ml.,  against  whom  a  pormanei 

protecting  their  contract  vigorously,  and  whei 
deuce  is  secured  the  offenders  arc  brought  hit 


j  Russell  Hunting,  formerly 
]&  Co.,  London,  Eng.,  is  now 


.  is  now  with  the  recording 
Freres.  Paris,  France.  He 
ner  with  Louis  S.  Sterling, 
e  Columbia  Phonograph  Co., 


.Edison,  on  First  ^Vacation  in 


First,  Best  and  Largest. 

INCORPORATED  1885. 

For  0%~  - 

From  the 

I^TlONALfl^ 

J  flEW  York  City 

Nll»C° 

Vtaanyl)  .  ; 

"  . 1 . 

;„RS. edIsomsskeeteb  foe! 


■  doCl it'  itewo” ynll"artj 

aEaln.  60°yea're.  driving  Util 


%K£™ 

-  ar,.“£~«rsJ 

‘clew  cellars  of  tho  hibernating  buz 

■  im\”Vofhcrhboa.to!'0.hut"al|  Jho  doo« 

and  windows  light  and  then  aban 
doned  It  to  Its  dcstructlvo  work. 

Tho.  apparatus  consists  of  an  a  c 
hoi  lamp,  a  due  about  tho  size  of  nr  . 
Ordinary  stovepipe  and  a  rcceplocW 
■  for  cullclde,  tho  namo  given  to  tot 

'  '!Cr  Vehpo.,.co0wd.nrn  the  nppa 

rntu,  and  the  Women’s  Improvement 

Co “l»  also  aid  those  who  are  do 


First,  Best  and  Largest. 

INCORPORATED  1885. 

For _ t  *^~  -  - 

From  the 


j^IQML^W 


BY  STATESMEN  1 


iiiiaiiiiHfiifiiiii 


American  Inventor  Holds  Long 
Reception  in  “Distinguished 
Visitors’  Gallery."  -  ' 

IS -MUCH  EMBARRASSED.- 


Declines  to  Visit  Lords  and 
Declares  Hereditary  System 
:  -Should  Go. 


■  I PUIEHT 

Great  American  dnye.ntor'Spr-j 
prised  at  <  Stupid  ".Wlethodj 
i  of/ Cooling  House  ‘  £  j 

i|‘;tA.Y\’RA^t>SAYS  HE.  iS'^ij 

Q  UKL.hlh  bfHOUL6*)Y, 

THOMAS  A.  EDISON  LIONIZED. 

British  HMuoh  of  |nvontor. 

sl0>’  T,!,!!,  wng  UoulMtl  Hi  till!  Hons' 
by  UiolonainK  «bU03...c, 

“ 

■L,,u  ,  nut  iiilcutlona  bUonnciu 

upon  "lUiu  null  doclluod  «u  luvltiitlon  1 

nor  nmt  outers. 

Hr '  ~v  T-fciaMMHi 

i-IMfcS?  A? 

FREDIC’KCURG,  VA..  .TRN’L  m 

Pf 


ITHOMAS  A.  EDISON  LIONIZED. 


wm 


A  BRIGHTER  PARIS,' 
SO  EDISON  THINKS 

*  ~  /  </  V . 

Inventor  Looks  French  Capital) 
Over  and  Declares  This  City' 
Soon  Will  Eclipse  It  , as"  * 
:  Metropolis  of  Pleasure. 

CHAMPS  ELYSEES  TWILIGHT; 
COMPARED  WITH  BROADWAY. 

Predicts  Cities  Made  Magical  by 
Electricity  and  Vogue  of 
■  Speaking,  Moving  Pictures."; 


■".•.r.'WmrK,  .Pa,, 


HOT  BO  NOVEL. 

.  Inventor  Edison  torcsccB'.  lho.^l  «y  -wb*n  hi 
di»nlcuTTIWmpTMl.tea'by: ■Uio.n 

umclilno  nnd  tlio  phonograph.  .  W  !|  drlyo  rfci 
men  nin)  women  froih  tho  .stage. .  ,3  |.  ;  '  ,v 

.  "Why  should  people  I10  contdnt  to" 

'  tors  to  SCO  pulntcd  nfctorS  play,  U  ”•»  . 

t^roirtu^'sca^ryToUt  £**  “  jh A 


f|!  S fl  dLs  j 


■  IS  1 
ISSUE  m  i.  r; 

5ays  French  Are  Wise  in  , 
Contenting  Themselves',^; 

I  With  Few  Children  V. 

France  is  superior 

.nventor  LiJsss.  Country  and  i 
Relieves  Its  Citizcnsh^fi 
ls.Strong  ■'iCfjM’iV-o  | 


J,cr  «<«h. 


"o' 

"  "V”  »«»«>•  "n  It  while In  th|Joi 

WafisfStsrsrs; 

S«S?®ffssSl 

S^saKSWS® 

bcllev*  brutal 2251?. 

"howj?""6*"  O' °’th.u' l,Fnnr  p  niajl 

T;  lnmr„«r"W  dlrfo®.  '  V 


Sfsliflf 

tor  Ihirc  rrt;„*  ?°tl,lJ*'lful  dls?o v'  j 


COURIER  (It®) 
Evansville 

Aug.  28,  1911 


NEW  BEDFORD  (NA)  MERCURY 


N.Y.  EVENING  JOURNAL 

Mon.  Aug.  21,  1911 


I»arl8,  AUK-  SI. — Thomas  A.  Edison  loft 


a  tour  ot  ntlddlo  l'rancc.  SwlUorlomi  and. 
Prom  there  Uo'foeiflo  Ollon  anU  AU-les- 
Edison* rode>ln  the  Dels  do  Boulogne.  ' 
A  moving  ploturo  mo.n^yWKlol^  ;l ." 

°hrirPlEdlBon  laughed  and  consented.  It  ■ 
tvlll  bo  the  ttrst  time  :ho* bast  ovej.  been 
(shown  In  moving,  pictures,  whlcltlbo -In-.  . 
|VOTbJa'l„vontor_vlsltod;.thoti»lanUot_ 


a 


MARION  ( IN )  CHRONICLE 
Pci,  Aug.  29,  1911 
»*rrai'cTina  tho* ii'teKSniw 


PORTLAND  (OR) 
TELEGRAM 
Aug.  22,  1911 

DISPUTES  EDISON' 

0»  Ffi! 


rally 

Iprucluto  Edison,  despite  thg.j'vc 
‘donees  on  ovory  hand,  of  It  Is  rrtn/\ 
,ous  contributions',  to  human'  wolf  a 
Edison  represents'-. a  new.-,  .  type^: 
greatness..  Ho  Is  lie 


nil  hlstoty  has  giycn'sueii  an  Itnp.oj 


is  who  Is  dominated  by  th«:*pn 


HOLYOKE  (MA) 
TRANSCRIPT 


Portland  Woman  •  Forgets 
T rumps,  but  Defends  Amcr-  ( 
.  ican  Staff  of  Life.;  . 


world,  j 

.  .  .  ^  m  j  ^•koqdVpM-  Ain  or  lean  { 


train  from  Brussels,  ni 


LAWRENCE  (MA) 
TELEGRAM 

Mon.  Aug.  21/  1911 


'  man  endeavor  Impresses  us.  \'o 
unconsciously  an  idea  that  Ids  op! 
on  anything  under  tho  sun  must 
*  great  value  whereas  In  reality 
f  probably  of  llttlo  value  outside  of 
own  particular  Hue. 


3  ANGELES  (CA)  7 
1911 


l  is  unuouuieuiy  m»r  . 

’o  genius.  Ho  Is  rightly#?* 


electricity.  Cut  it  Is  almost  like 
plug  a  dignified  old  man  of  al 
clothes  and  driving  1dm  naked  th 
a  crowded  city  street  to  quote  Edlson^H 


,.m  'hla* basket,  had  sllpad  off  and  wu. 
•dying- In  tho’  midst  of.  all",  that  unspeak- 
‘  ‘  Id  thut  stroot  swooper  do|' tr 


Curious  Mistake  Leads  ;to  the: 

Statement  That.  Inventor’s  :  i 
,  Wif  _u  t  - 

Famous  'AmericaiiSFarajly  ill 
L  '.'’on  aTour^of  Eui  ope1. 

lipRAXGE,'  ’x‘tv  jJ  ‘  Aug.  Ji'M 
Thomas :  A..  Edison',  \vlfo  of. ’tho 
fenjor,.  la  not  lost  soincwheroUn 

itfntMi  contrary^ 


i.  Chur  lea. 

e/mnm’1',  Bt»liji‘unV,‘  Switzerland 
s  'whereabouts' 


.Michigan  Central  o 


CHEAP  GOLD  WILL  COME 


Throws  a  Searo  iato  Business  Mon  Who 
Got  Him  to  Talk  During  His  Trip 
Across  tire  Atlantic—' “Wo'ro  Only  at 
the  Beginning  of  Science,”  Ho  Says. 


When , 

mndojhla'  r  , 

11  to  England,'  . 

'  needed  In  getting  him  Into  conversation, 

.  and  ono  of  }h»  things -  which  tho  In-, 
fetor  told-hlo  nuMtlVnera,  taadonhlom^ 


stipulated  in  their  contracts  to  be  paid 
in  gold. 

Tho  convocation  with  IHison  la  re-, 


4he  Mauretania.  «It  rune  lu  part*. 

;  Some  of  ua  on  hoard  queationed  Edi¬ 
son  *ibout  hia  recent  atatementa  with 
regard  to  the  possibility  of  manufactur- 
ing  gold.  “Only,  a  matter  of  time,”  he 
replied.  '  “Tho  discovery  of  ft  proper 
combination  and  treatment  of  metal  la 


ton  and  work  levers.  Storago  batteries  * 
will  drive  ploughs,  while  the  future  agji: 
cultural  laborer  will  bo  n  man  who  has 
acquired  a  working  knowlcdgo  of  chem- 
•  •  id  botany.  Tlio  very  utmost  will 


tho  brow— will  be  performed  by  machin¬ 
ery  controlled  by  electricity. 

nro  only  at  tho  beginning  of 
i,”  said  Edison,  throwing  away. 

,  cigar  and  lighting  a  fresh  one. 
“Nature’s  doora  aro  just  opening  after 
mighty  pushing  on  our  part.  Thla  cen¬ 
tury.  ylll  sco  ns  many  hair  Taking  won- 


_ _  4 .  \Vhon  gootj 

Queen  Victoria  was  a  girl  wlioro  wn* 
steam, 1  whero  ;vna  electricity?  Thoy, 


. . 'o  by  patiently  overcoming  •  rid!- 1 , 

etile*  aud  tho  hundred  and  one  obalncle^yj 
wliir-h  ahvnys  confront  pj-qgrcs»-,,  ^0NV  \ 


snooRiiVR. 


?  ,  (NE)  SUN 

Thursday,  August 


MRS.  EDISON  CAN’T  BE  FOUND! 


,  1  1  i  tr~  Ed  leWr 

::'t'p!,'comuiynicatb;wltU:hla3ylfe/au^:thy 


A  ■  r<  n  Ri  latjveVSay  31  j  is 
a  :  '  veiltor,. Husband.'"  ^  , 


Wife  of  T.  A.  Edison  I 
Fails  to  Claim  Mail;  | 
Searoliis  Instituted 

.Xettore  •  from. inventor.  to;,Paxi»-  Ee- 
i'iuraiJt' Morked  “Not  Here’.Vand  ’ 
-v'Effortsto  rind  Woman  Fail. 


(PA)  GAZETTE 


WASHINGTON  (DC)  STAU 
August:  27,  1911 


"ISM-SON,  T. 


.A.  -  PERSON  A  l,n 


POSTON  (HA)  TRAVELER 
Tuesday.  September  26,  1911 

Hjjjn,  «n  hivKiiropea"  "’**'’*. the  “nflvorab1' 


PHILADELPHIA  (PA)  PRESS 
SaLurday,  Sept.  30,  1911 


BOY  INSTANTLY  KILLED  BY  H 
THOMAS^A.  'EDISON’S,  AUTO  | 

.Inventor  Vn‘RollevoSK'Roop®P»l1>ll!‘y  | 


LOUISVILLE  (KY) 


TIMES 


PORTLAND  (ME) 
EXPRESS 

Sat.  09/30/1911 


ST.  PAUL  (MINN) 
DISPATCH  ' 

Pci.  09/29/1911  _ 

Igebmans  held  I 

BACK  B.V.  mm 


This  Is  the  VertUot  of  “Wisard”  Edi¬ 
son,  ns  He  leaves  Hamburg  for 
the  United  States. 


Tue.  09/26/1911 


\J  aKdMIaon  soys  tlio  present.  faih>on"j 

I  tljfit  event,  lie  might  apply  tlio  Scrip- 1 
j  jfural  Injunction- und  p|uc!t,',tbcin’:j$^ 


Sat.  Sep.  30, 


1911 


/X.  AJgd&m  It 

I  lIliULTN,  Sept.  22.- 


Rcuohes  Berlin  i 

_ ,"Sepl.  22.— Thomas  A.  Edison, . 

tho  American  invcntor^anived^todayj.^nd 

Commcrco  iw^.^SsilS^inSS^^^^ 


SAT.  09/30/1911 


flJlWSMMtIN  I 


NEWARK  (NJ)  EVE-  STAR 
Monday/  Scptentocr  25,  1911 


i  wiaaril'’  linUs  lliu  leclniichl  _ 
i  ,nvn.  1  n. .  I  hco  ro  l  icti.1 .  Kcience 


Uieoieiicul,, Hciencc Jdic/.^outomc  Dlnm  ituu  •  •  ' 

ilAPm,«  to  iipi^ied-meiAntf^BAanleo  groins  hj>l I<1»  11 i>'j 


WASHINGTON  (DC)  POST 
Monday,  Sept:-  25,  1911 


EDISON’S  VIEWS  OF  GERMANS'. 


OSSINING  (NY)  CITIZEN 
Monday,  September  25,  1911 


ST.  LOUIS  (MO)  GEODE- 
DEMOCRAT 

Sunday,  Sept.  2d,  1911 


BROOKLYN  (NY)  EAGLE 
Tuesday,  Sseptenfaer  2G,  1911 

I  Personal  and  Impersonal  | 


BOSTON  (MA)  TRANSCRIPT  (?) 
Saturday,  September  23,  1911 


AUBURN  (NY)  CITIZEN 
Monday,  September  25,  1911 


Thomas  A.  -BiHaoit  la  .  subjecting 
tradition  l^o'^cvcrc  <l>lows  nnont  lila 
travels  In  Euro  pc.  Ho  says  tlint  "with 
•all  thoir;  Industrial  growth  thcVjcch-. 
nlcal  methodsand !  appllancesyfpf»the 
Germans  ’.aro  '-  far  lnforro*r/io^btirfl‘. 
.The 'lack'  of-  up-^  t  o .  d  a  toi  m  a  ch | np  ^ 
iTnaDyi  lnatances 

;  aide  in* '  !rapdorn;;iinv^Uon^&^^^ 
•  say?  the.-  Americans'  p til 


Mon.  09/25/1911 


Tliuc.  09/28/1911 


MraMUat  (' lliS-'  ,,ric“  'k 
W-jccliDB  imrliouhirly"kit“ir|isb)“!for" 
i;o'l«dan  to  invito  one’s  noooncnlo  to:, 


The  man  who  works  eighteen  .hours'- 

day  rcgnrda  hd  icon's  caution  : — 

>  much  sleep  wtfJTa  grim  *mi 
ro  passing  interest. 

-‘'Milwaukee  ought  to  be  a  warm  j.Jadffl 
'r""'  -ICxc  Imnce.  SIilwankee,n|^C<al^ 


SAT.  09/23/1911  1 


llv.  ^KiigHsh  of  the  Civic  Commission;*  D*. 

j  oilmen^  John  M.  ^  Cocliring,  ^E.  **V.  Bab'  ^ 

I  Hr.  J .  l\  Kerr,  S.  S.  \Voodburn  mid  \'Jf: 

\  McArdlc.  _  _  j^  . 


Mon.  09/25/1911 


Inventor  Complains  He  Is 
Bothered  by  Cranks  in  Hurope. 


|  his  Interest.  “They  tr 


Sun.  09/24/1911 


oy  the  Probate  Court  m 
administrator  of  ills  estate,  Mary  Jium 
Barr  yesterday  started  suit  for  $100, 
000  damages  mmlnst  tho  Soutneri 
California 


b*.  The  plaintiff  plmrgcs 
imWWWlliwnoe. 


£'sjl 


Mon.  09/25/1911 


*n  Hint  will  cost  only  $2.  Mr.  Kill* 
•nunot  invent  anything  in  tho  way 

i>iiat-l*>. — *i!  i  :  •>*:  •.(puriiul. 

Fi.’dmt  His  Fences. 


•  09/26/19H 


:  Hr 


“  Ho  nodded  towards*  a 


EDISONS  HOMEWARD  BOUND.^ 


Sat.  09/30/1911 


•rues.  09/26/1911 

EDISON  COINING  H0ME4 


tng  Europo  In 

_ _ JSiiE&a 

. . 3@$| 


man.  capital, 
whero  they 
!or  Now  York; 
koon  Interest  I*.. 

3orlln-nnd .  beforQ^oavlnK^Bald- 


Sat.  09/30/1991 


Sat.  09/30/1911 


MR.  AND  MRS.  EDISON 
:  ON  THEIR  WAY  HOME! 

Senator  du  Pont  Also  Among  Pas¬ 
sengers  on  Boarej  the  Anierika,  '. 
Steaming  from  Southampton'. .  . 

Emjjjjoui  ••  ’ 


SAT.  09/30/1911 


,mlS 


3 


Sat.  09/30/1911 


sj5 bo  Is) 


of !  com  plot  loir  which  would  keep  a  woman) 

b^c- would  have  .tho  *,m*'»*h-* 

■  ,%\M0  con  tended  /- tt 


C 


A-rumor  lias  .becnvpjt-' 

has -invented '.an  ultVa-fashionM&ift,  for -ladies  that -wil  -cost  noUJ 
i  to  exceed  $2  And  this  is  the  iitdtS'wKo'.isvresponsible.forithc  elcctrjM, 


’curlirig^ijjjt 


"I5U1S0N,  T.A.  -  L’ERSONftl." 

Mffil  XOKK  (MY)  WOU1.1)  Sunday,  OcLuboi:  01,  I9J  L 


EDISON  WOWKS 

FOR  LO%E  OF  IT. 

He  Has  No  Patience  with  the  ‘‘Open-Mouth  Philosophy  of 
Indolence,”  He  Tells  The;forld-‘‘In  America 
We  Mostly  Get  What  rVjgEjeserve.”— “A 
t  lan  Creates  His  ;pp|ortunities.” 

(Special  Correspondence  J^^^CorrespondeM  Mint 

••I  lllto  ymtftl  know  rm  not  Im».  nnd  It  U  ^ 

lit  may  not  no  so.  lor 

^^.In^wwTn.  who  .}  ... 


vmjtaleo'  Franco.  I  plnco  Pnstour.  Boo- 
SaJcra^n1  their JartVcutar  iTno^nntrT^o 


:fo*avotJnU hla^pockot' totreat  the  crowd.! 
HaSman j 

havo  tlrmj°for  beer-inspired  talk.  Naturo, 
hows  ouf CaSOp|aco  for<  thuso  who  aro. 
CO‘‘Thto'rislnK  quantity.  has  always  boon' 
,ln  th^miorlty^to^mako  ai ^*^0  Th°' 


In  .the  general  b 
y$t  independent  w 
HopB.  Ho  has  tho  feeling  th 
a  rightful^  wage:  that’^w^iaj;^^ 

’T^Iiloyd-Gcorgo  .Is.  one  of  those 
'iidlc  cases  of  a  highly  organised 

It  la  a  picoauro  to  contemplate:  tt 


prntltudo  ■-« 
wriivv  Dana  and 

wXS’IwiK 

started  In  opirnUnn  Iby 
10  •  B„cco3»V»t  their  Individual  nntai- 
-Moriintlildor.  *»  InvontlnB  in«_«n”; 
roo.'  ’  alif'Hd  .  ko  dour  to  '  W  >**'. 

2gp  rudder  ptrotiKh  whavho^ ««com 


EDISON  .RESUMES  HIS 
WORK  IN  LABORATORY 

ELECTRICITY 

i  Knl  lowing  ft  lumli 

Inventor  Mas  Returned  From 

"  Two-Months  Vacation 

IMPATIENT  TO  GET  BACK 

Anxious  About  Some  of'  Experiments 

npprtauce^wh 

j  •/*  Performed  During  Hi3  Abaence— 

“  ’  Renewed^. Health  and  Vigor— Many 

ssss 

;  ;,Exper[enceB  on'tho  Tour. 

alt  the’iVn^lQul'UlJor 

i  ‘/'on  -  rn  ufo  -•  I  Ii'.io  -  n,  h  ili 

work  wliicn  really. 

i  1  r.e  wicMpci/lioi! 
dry  ounlinitui;  Ini-llii 

NEW  YORK  (NY)  COMM. 
Eridav,  October  06/  19H 


MEMPHIS  (’IN)  COM.  APPEAL 


BALTIMORE  (HD)  STAR 
Monday/  October  02,  1911 


BROOKLYN  (NY) 


CITIZEN 

Sun.  10/08/1911 


TH-  !_r  — 

EBILL  Siriii.  f 
mTCECTRlML  SHOW 


Will  Throw  Switch  in  His 
Laboratory  in  Jcrsey.- 

GOVERNMENT  WILL  EXHIBIT 


Wed.  10/04/1911  ^ 
SIOUX  FALLS  (SD) 
PRESS 

I /like  eoesoe^ 


!  Aged  Inventor  Signal’"  Hon¬ 
ored  in  Berlin 


MINNEAPOLIS,  (MM) 
JOURNAL 

'Thu.  10/05/1911 


ITHACA  (NY)  NEWS 
Thursdsay 
Oct  ober  05,  19.11 


A!  eiv  York  Chy* 


HEIST  2®  STREET  Aft 


Inventor  Corrects  Story  That  He  Crit¬ 
icised  German  Integrity- — Repeated  1 
Statements  Made  to .  Him',  , 


Mr^Thomn^A.  Kdlson^v&o  returned 
from  Europe  Inst  Saturday  on  board  the 
Atncrikn,  of  the,  IJrfmburg-Amcrican  hne. 
declared  yesterday  nt  his  home,  In  Orange. 
X.  .1..  that  In  view  of  the  fact  that  the  Im¬ 
pression  has  sained  ground  hi.  GeriDOU.v 
•Jmt  he  declared  the  German  standard  of 
••ommcrcial  integrity  to  be  lower  than  that 
of  England  he  wishes  to  sinte~  that  what- 


SUNDAY 


TllUR. 


10,  1911 


S 


fEDISON  WORKING”  ! 
..  ON  MORNING  ORE; 

Hopes  to  Solve  Problem  of  Concen- 
•  nation  for  Federal 
'  Company. 


SATURDAY 

Oct.  21,  1911 


tow  EDISON  COMPUTES  YEAES.  j 

0<  eee— VOU 

•ok  -urplrt^.  tout  I  »m  uountlnBjMo 


,o  patent  alone— that  I 


THE  OREGON  DAILY 
JOURNAL  (Portland) 
10/18/19.11 


THE  OREGON  DAILY  JOURNAL’,  PORTLAND,  WEDNESDAY 


Get  Ntobel  Prize*  for  Achievements  in  Physics 
Award  h  One  Fifth  of  Annual  Interest  From  $ 9,000,000 


-  m 


:c-  I  — phyalp,  \chbmlslry,  mcUlclno,'  •  llter-j 
of  ht,ire  and-  ponce.  '  •  -  :-4 :  J*l 


EM  RIDICULED  BY  I  /  ' 

SOCIALIST  SPEAKER  M  W\ 


COPPER  CUBE  FOR  EDISON 


(MASS.)  HERM.C 


oc,  i,„.  / 

EVENING  S»* 


r\cibi\r&c_ 

IvctiULx*  zzt  -  /°a , 


— -^^/-// 


|  FAAlOul  INVENTOR  Will  ReCClOC  • 

nrS;!SgrZt  The  Nobel' Pnze; 


WONDERFUL  INDORSEMENT,  j 


I  EDNA  WALLACE  HOPPER 
f  THINKS  EDISON  MOST 
WONDERFUL  OF  MEN 


Sunday/  November  05,  1911 


IlftVEUIIILL  (HA)  GftZKTTE 
Wednesday,  November  OX,  19J.J. 


EUROPEAN  BUILDING" 


BUILDER'S  GUIDE  PUILADELPUIA  (PA) 

November  15,  1911 


EDISON  ON  EUROPEAN  BUILDING 


CW 


NORFOLK  (Vfl)  LANDMARK 
Sunday i  Nov.  2G,  1911 


"BATTERY/  STORAGE" 


DENVER  (CO)  POST 
*  November  21,  19X1 


MW  BATTERIES 
pi ..  10  JE  TESTED. 


vWireless  May  Be  Made  to 
Work  Suocessfuly  With- 
i  i  out  Dynamo. 


irntii  ~ 

IN  MINE  III 

I  Elect™  Locomotive  With  Edison 
Storago  Battories  to  Be  Used 
in  the  Central  Tunnel. 


"EDISON,  T.A.  -  PEKSONftl." 


®IS0H  WONT  TAKE  ' 
US  NOBEL  PRIZE 


He  Regards  It,  Says  an  Associate 
of  Many  Years,  as  a  Roward '  j 
for  Poor  Inventors.  '■  ,| 

MENTIONED  FOR  IT  THIS  YEAR 


"3UUMAKJHE 

M1M  itORK  (NX)  IUHSS 
TuK;. ,  Doc.  05,  19JL.1 


UNDER  WATER  100 
DATS  WITH  BATTER! 

Edison  Has  New  Invention  fo  ■ 
Submarine  Boats. 

TO  BE  SHOWN  TO-DA'i  !KV 


Crew  Enabled  to  Manufacture  Pure  |i>» 
•  Air, at  Bottom  of  Sea  in  :g 
Case  of  Accident.  :;.-i  |{J5 


jfTliere  Is  No  Niche  For  Carnegie 

I  In  Thomas  A.  Edison's  Hall  Of  Fame 

Inventor  Is  Unwilling  to  Consider j I  Two  Great  Men  Pick 
$  Steel  Magnate  Among  World's  i 


MARLBORO 


am  somewhat  In- 

iSHOW,  MOVINGsjiTUKI^ 

I  Is  tfyat  of  a  benevo- 
eat  inontnl  capacity, 
>r  William  of  C.er- 
^  hcnovolont 

'(aSuccessful-Entertainments 
p^Given  in  Miller  Chapel  p 

form  of  Kovornmont 
dness^  ntu\  dovolop 

lonatructfoiV  of  Panama.  Canal/"  jand 
i/fSnrconiler'vAt  Tlcondoroga,"  Ar.e  .  1 

?f  A  s<,rl“'  h  •' 

cross  convinced  him 

fCMiQwMwal  /imrformaimou"  ol 
bvirii;?pt6'mWss:vyoro'.s(yon:  in  Mlllor 

1  ss 

jo'^qusplcp^?  nf  v ;  ||$|m 

rlty'"*‘Ttttd^  cxjmnsloi 

>;  ii  ' ' 1 1 1  0  .  0]l5( !' 

i  ad ; Mrs.'- \V i  Ulanif  Hooka follow. 

Suggestion  May  Be  All 
•Right  in  Certain  Individ¬ 
ual  Cases,  but— cr — 


REALLY  IS  NOT  “BEAUTIFUL” 


“Of  Course  Some  People  Are 
Interested  in  That  Sort  ot 
Thing,”  Says  Clarkson, 
Who  .Is  Skeptical. 


lias  vlutorjr  to  the  Motloi 
IcnlB  Company  In  t< 
against  tlio  Ciaraso  Kll 

tor  lnfrlnaninents  ot  1 
granted  to  the  TUouuia 
tercats. 


|  the  litigation,  and  tin  i 


HftRlOM  (on) 


The  Inventor  Always  at  Work — His  New 
Cement  Furniture  Compared  with  Francis 
Joseph’s  Outfit— Some  Radical  Views. 


IX3YLEST0WN  (PA)  D'CUAT- 
Thur.,  Dec.  21,  1911 


CJNClNMflTI  (Oil)  ENQUIRER 
Sunday,  Dec.  21,  1911 


I  PARTNER  OF 
EDISON  DIES! 

Dr.  I-I.  K.  Wartzull.  Prominent 

CAA1E  1-R0A10LD  GERMAN  STOCK 

Ancestor  Horn  hi  Haru  AVountaiRs. 
Germany,  In  1705— Bucks  Coumv 
Lad  Who  Became  Interested  in 
Great  /Wining  EAcrprlses 


it  place  lie  completed  l 


Alter  hla  graduation  I 


jry,  which  he  conducted  f  ir  se 
ie  purchased  u  «l 
»  conducted  1 


or  Ills  death. 

A  STAUNCH’  DEMOCRAT 
tn  politics  Dr.  Hartacll,  like  prac¬ 
tically  all  the  members  of  this  large 
family,  was  a  staunch  Domocrat.  Ho  , 
was  a  membcr-ofSt.  John's  Reformed. 
Church,  Allentown,  and  a  thlrty-sec- 
oiul  degree  Mason.  He  was  also  a 


A.  C.  Godslmll,  of 


Of  “$10,000  Men” 


Due  To  Strides  Made  in 
World  of  Invention. 


G.  W.  Perkins  Points  To 
Machinery’s  Advance. 


Also  Declares  That  To 
Think  Is  the  Thing. 


Experience  and  Ability.  Com¬ 
bined  With  Education  and 
Honesty,  Are  Big  Fac- 
tois  in  Business. 


_ _ _ m  InJhc  Wo Wj.Yf 

erfrk . ■•■-"■' 


Tm/SO.'?..-..  « . :p£C%.,/tH 


EDISON  FIRS'--- 
1INSVICT0RY, 

Favored  in  Decision,  in  In- 
’7,  ’fririgement  Action. 

RULING .  May  revolutionize 
PICTURE  BUSINESS. 


Washington,  Dec.  20.— Revolution  of 


DECIDES  LITIGATION 
IN  FAVOR  OF  MOTION 
PICTURE  PATENTS  CO. 


Supreme  Court  today  giving  a  sweep- 
[Patents  Company  ju ^litigation  against 

Appeals 
perpetual 
Stafford  set  forth  that  Thomas' 
.  irlglnal,  first 


5^- district,  Justice 
e  injunction^  restrains 


EDISON- INTERESTS 
11  BATTLE  OVER , 
ITIII 


Justice  Stafford's  Decision 
May  Mean  Sweeping 
Changes  in  Business. 


Stafford,  of  the  District  Supreme  Court, 
tost  litigation  agai 

unions  of  dollars  are  involved  in  the! 
to  the  Court  of  Appeals  of  the  District,) 
week  in  tho  perpotual  injunction  issued. 


MOVING  PICTURE  PATENTS 

EDISON’S,  SAYS  COURT, 


g-Thomas-  A.  Rained  by  the  Chicago  company  by  re 


the  liinetoscopo  film,  the  original  nr 
for  the  present-day  motion  picture 
films,  fn  a  decision  today  ’by  Justice 
Stafford  In  the  District  Supreme  Court, . 
granting  a  perpetual  Injunction  against 


Lice  of  appeal  to  the  District  Court  of 


Tt  la  ordered  that  thc  plnJntiff  recover 
rom  the  def ondruit^tho^pron t^gnl ri s  and  j 
euwm  o?*thejmfrtngement,  and  that’i 


o  Stafford  granted  a 


ordered  the  defendant  to  fil 


"U  nwliovc  that  whoa  congress  passed  the  Sherman  anti-trust  net  it 
.  actually  meant  to  curb  the  trnsts^K  fniled^nbsolntel^  AH«  m.m., 

™l0i  PASS  LEGISLATION 

THAT  WOULD  FOREVER  SETTLE  THE  TRUST  QUESTION  TO  THE 

‘satisfaction  of  the  people  and  the  .interests  the  only 
OBSTACLE  IS  THE  CLASS  OF  MEN  ON  WHOM  THIS.  DUTY  DC 
VOLVES.  THEY  ARE  NOT  EQUAL  TO  THEIR  DUTIES. 

K  t]lcv  Wcre  men  who  knew  tho  technique  of  business,  llio  inner 
working  of  commercial  life,  we  might  expect  some  JOSBOLTS  from 
.  their  laborious  efforts. ..  ,  .  _ 

IW  fifty  YEARS  FROM  NOV/  1  HOPE  THAT  WE  WILL  HAV 
IN  FIFTY  XMn*  r  CAPABLE  OF  GRASPING 

TH£L GREAT  TANGLED  MASS  OF  BASIC  cilJSfoF  MEN 

OUR  INDUSTRIAL  LIFE  IS  FOUNDED.  UNTIL  THIS  d-ASS  OF  MEN 
APPEARS  ON  THE  NATIONAL  HORIZON  I  EXPECT  LITTLE  REAL 


PROGRESS. 


NWP"  Clipping  Bu,"«  '"Hffflj'gf/fifc 

ail  ^ 

. 

Isay  edison  didn’t  Ti 

!  INVENT  THE  FILM  ! 


EDISON'.OOMPANY 
'  WANTS  ROSIN 


S  ONLY  $200  TO  E.QUiT  HOUSE  WITH 
INVENTOR  EDISON’S  CONCRETE  l‘T]i.\TTI!HE 


o_H  W  fos  Latest  7EiunK= 
.PHONOGRAPH  CABINET  . 


POPULAR  ELECTRICITY 


POPULAR  ELECTRICITY 


Unbound  Clippings  Series 
Clippings  (1912) 


These  clippings  cover  the  year  1912.  Most  of  the  items  are  taken  from 
newspapers,  but  there  are  several  longer  magazine  articles  as  well.  Clippings 
relating  to  Edison's  inventions  and  business  matters  include  articles  about  the 
introduction  of  three  major  new  products:  the  disc  phonograph,  the  Blue 
Amberol  cylinder  phonograph,  and  the  home  projecting  kinetoscope.  There 
are  also  articles  concerning  Edison's  views  on  patent  law;  the  resignation  of 
Frank  L.  Dyer  as  the  president  of  Thomas  A.  Edison,  Inc.,  and  his 
replacement  by  Edison;  and  the  federal  government's  initiation  of  an  antitrust 
suit  against  the  Motion  Picture  Patents  Co. 

Other  clippings  pertain  to  the  celebration  of  Edison's  sixty-fifth  birthday; 
his  support  for  Theodore  Roosevelt  and  the  Progressive  party  in  the 
presidential  election;  his  endorsement  of  women's  suffrage;  and  the  deaths 
of  his  mother-in-law,  Mary  Valinda  Miller,  and  his  longtime  associate  George 
E.  Gouraud.  In  addition,  there  are  articles  discussing  his  plans  to  make 
motion  pictures  for  use  in  schools;  his  attendance  at  the  first  annual  "Edison 
Field  Day"  company  picnic  and  game  day;  and  a  contract  for  the  use  of 
Edison  Portland  cement  at  the  new  baseball  park  at  Ebbetts  Field  in  Brooklyn. 

Approximately  30  percent  of  the  clippings  have  been  selected.  In 
addition  to  numerous  duplicate  versions  of  most  of  the  stories,  the  unselected 
items  include  articles  not  directly  related  to  Edison  on  patent,  copyright,  and 
business  law;  recording  contracts;  and  the  phonograph  industry. 


“PHONOGRAPH  -  GENERAL” 


•EDISON  SEES  1912  i 
r  GREAT,  MINUS  GREED; 

.  — — • — fj  -v  "V  i 

•Unhorse  tho  Oppressor  and  Up-) 
I'iift  tho  Producer,  tho  Inventor — 
i  '  ■  His. Now  Year  Advice. 


'.MUCH  •  TO  PRAISE  IN  1911, 


CHICAGO  (IL)  JOURNAL 
Saturday.  January  OG,  1912 


LEXINGTON  (KY)  HERALD 
Sunday,  January  07,  1912 


EDISON  DOOMS  1.  0.  SMOKE 
'  ~1N  PACT  WITH  RAILWAY 


Arranges  to  Provide  Electric  Locomo 
tivesin  Tests  for  Terminal  Ele'ctrification 


j  /.  THE  CONCRETE 


ie’a  concreto  bungalow 
*..«./!»  nulR  Uio  concrete  boll; 
’Twiib  hi  the  newest  concreto  row 


„r  concreto  lmlrbruBh  Jonesy  dived 
And  brushed  Ills  Sunday  head.  1 


And  Tlrown’B  foot  tapped’ the  concrete 


1.0S  ANGELES  (CA)  EXAM. 
Wednesday,  January  03,  1912 


Angelenos  Buy  Land 


KANSAS  Cm  (MO)  JOURNAL 
Friday,  January  05,  1912 


|  EDITORIAL  NOTES. 

1  liomns  A.  Edison  saj^tliat 

-  ad  thoJ 


I  Congressional  Record.  - 


NEW  YORK  MORNING  SUN 
Saturday,  Jan.  20,  1912 


10USAND  ISLAND  CLUB  MEETS.; 


JSSWfe  abr“r*  I 


MINNEAPOLIS  (MN)  JOURNAL 
Sunday,  January  07,  1912 


ThoninK  X  Jaflilflll  Vll,cu 

clJBWWHU  men.  TJoTChior  Eborliart 
Minnesota  pahi  tributo  to  tbo  man  wj 
tlm  mountain  nml  wild  on ness  'in ore*  h ! 


«a .every  farmor  m  juinncBota."  im 
said,  "but  they  liavo  nls0  agisted  in 
i ho  dovolopuiont  nml  oxidoltation  of 
or °n mlU h ^ i or ^  haV0  1Dluij  11  fo  M*1** 

(•'iueora'Vo0 eo mu'. "i'i  thor”. y°U 


NORTH  ADAMS  (MA)  HERALD 
Monday,  Jan.  00,  19X2 

.  EDISON  IS  FOHGutEuL 

.Onuses  Chauffeur  Some  Wlrry  by 
Neglecting' to  Pay  Faro 
Chicago,  Jan .  S Ooalusoa  nro 
'credited  wlth*bolug  absent  tniudcrt  ami 
oblivious  to.’uionoy  .mutters,  .  an<l . 
h'honn^AtWflat^Hvod  up  to. .1.1*1  I 
roputiiUon  jvlitm  bo.  hired  a  Ug.  tc 

ihc  CoullnuiUal  and  Commercial  N«v- 
•  Honal  bank..  •  .  ...  . 

•  Upon  reaching  tho  bank  the  .in¬ 
ventor  disappeared  wiUdn  the  preal- 

U^lcL°n6Ver  saw  him  inoro. ^Aftor. 

within  and  Inquired’  «b  to  tho  whoro- 
abbutB  or  l»lB  taro;  Uuoblo  to  obtain 
any  Information,  ho  waited  four  hours 
longer,  varying  tho  monotony  by  fre- 
qupnt  tolcphono  calls  to  tho  hotel  and 
‘visits  wltliiu  tho  buuU.  •. 

Finally  i  wlion  6  o’clock  had  arrived, 
he  roturned  to  tho  Uluckstouo  and  lold 
the  story  ol’  having  lost  Ills  dlstln- 
qui^hpd  passenger.  Edison  could  not 
romombor. whether  ho  had  tolcl  the 
,  mnn  to  .wall  or  not,  nor  oould  lie- re - 

I  baiik^  to  lils  nest  appointment,  but 
gave  orders  that  the  chauffeur's  bill 
|  should  ho  KolUod  in  full. 


POSTON  (MA)  EVE.  HERALD  MANCHESTER  (Nil)  MIRROR 

Thursday,  Jan.  11,  1912  Friday,  Jan.  OG,  1912  ^ 


LOS  ANGELES  (CA)  TRIDTNE 
Saturday#  Jan,  06/  1912 


ALUMINUM  WIRE8 


<>2,000  voltngo,  la  •-* 

.  ....  ^nnd  rcnhtppod  to 


CANONSDURG  (FA)  NOTES 
Wed.,  dan.  24,  1912 


A.  Edison  lulled  to  gnln  tbo 
‘SB;.  iJTOnlg.'  aormany, 


PATERSON  (NJ)  CALL 
Tuesday,  Jan.  09,  1912 


PORTLAND  (ME)  EXPRESS 
Friday,  Jan.  05,  1912 


NEWARK  (NJ)  MORNING  STAR 
Tues.,  Jan.  28,  1912 


GLUCK  THOUGHT  i'O  BE'INSANE. 


„as  arrested  by  tho  West  Orange] 
rataMwsh^Ho  wns  walking 


;  fact  lire  of  asbestos  gowns,  mica  wulsl- 
.  contn  and  gun  metal  paJnums.-Clove- i 
J  land  1‘luln  Dealer.  i 


C  O 


"iousum,  T.fl.  - 

COMMON  CMJSE 

Vork,  NX  Jail.,  1912 


CHICAGO  (II.)  KECOKD-HKHA 
. I ;u luory  OG,  1912 

EflPU&.HERE| 

SAYS‘iW0!RT¥’j 
GOES  TOMORROW 

Inventor  to  See  Markham 
About  Electrification 
;  of  Illinois  Central. 

GIVES  TABLOID  ADVICE 

Visit  With  Family  for  the 
Byilcsby  Dinner  Is  the 
First  Since  1893. 


hazeltoM 

-HAgEWEM-  (PA)  SENTINEL 
I?ciday ,  January  12,  1912 


iQISON  |jAKE'j  PREDICTION. 


I  proved «» 

mviiim'  t'j’lio  tniulnis  «n»vl"B 
I  picture  IS  Bolus  I*'  P»<  «">  ‘»™,cra  0,,t 
'  nil  In  yel  null  hnpo  to  Bl™ 

!u  wnrhl  n  fev.’  more  Menu  before  1  fie 
itn  the  hereafter.” 


GOSHEN  (IN)  NEWS-TUIDUNE  REAPING  (PA)  EAGLE 

Friday,  Jail.,  12/  1912  Sunday,  Jan.  14,  1912 


ROCHESTER  (NY)  CIIUON1CI.E 
Monday,  January  00,  1912 


SCHENECTADY  (NY)  STAR 
Tuesday,  January  09,  1912 


bu  found  to  inject  a  little  electricity  iulo 
tlio  small  boy  one  scrimis  domestic  1 
problem  will  be  solved.  _ _ „ 


SURROGATE’S  COURT. 


ROCKFORD  (IE)  STAR 
^  Sunday,  January  07,  1912 


NEW  YORK  POST 

Friday,  January  12,  1912 


X... 


aC 


)r.  Richard  C.  Maclaurln, 


BANQUET  OF  EDISO'fT“ClsU3 


LOS  ANGELES  (Cfl)  TRIBUNE 
Sunday,  February  11,  1912 

^Edison,  65  Today, 

■_  Says  He  Feels  Just 
I  as  Young  as  at  25 

,  Wizard  Talks  Politics,  Asserts 
His  Only  Bad  Habit  Is  ' 
Chewing  Tobacco  i 


KANSAS  CITE  (MO) 


"PHONOGRAPH  -  GENEHAI.” 


Saturday  i  February  17,  1912 


L  H 


N-Y.  TIMES 

Tuesday/  Feb.  22,  1912 


COUGEORGE-epURflUDDEAD. 


NEW  YORK  ?  AMERICAN 
Wednesday,  Feb.  21,  1912 


Noted!  Jewish,  mid  'War  Ye 
eran  Buceuiubs  to  Paralysis 
•  at  Age  of  70  Years. 


"MOTION  PICTURE  -  USE  -  EDUCATION" 
BOSTON  (HA)  EVE.  AMERICAN 
Wednesday,  March  13,  1912 


Japanese 

,  At/Edison  Factories 


"STORAGE  DATl'ERY1 


PITTSBURGH  (l‘A)  LEADER 
Friday/  April  19/  1912 


*1  POM 

l  n  suit  ast 

jEdison’s  New  Storage  Bat¬ 
tery  May  Change  Street 
Car  Systems 

RECHARGED  QUICKLY; 


MEM  TORE  (My)  corn1." 
Friday,  April  2G,  1912 


S'  TO  SELL  EDISON  CARS 


JOURNAL  OF  COMMERCE  (Nit) 
April  25,  1912 

URGE  RIGHT  TO  HOLD 
:  PATENT  MONOPOLY 

LAVTYERS  PROTEST  AT  BASSAGE 
or  OLDFIELD  BILL. 


House  Committee  Hears  At¬ 
torneys  Who  Criticise  the 
Proposed  Legislation. 


NEW  YORK  (MY)  GLODE 


EDISON  DEVICE 
REVOLUTIONIZES 
MINING  INDUSTRY 

New  Treatment  of  Low-Grade 
Ores  Will  Add  $100,000,000 
to  Value  of  Country’s  Annual 
Metal  Production.  „ 


EDISON  TALKS 
ON  WOMEN 

He  Sovs  They  Are 
All  Loafers 


"EDISON,  T-A-  -  FAMILY" 
"THOMAS  A-  EDISON/  JE-" 
MEM  YORK  EVEN-  WORLD 
Tuesday!  May  28 ,  1912 


"MOTION  PICTURE  -  GENERAL 

SALT  HAKE  CITE  (Up 
May  17,  J.912 


NEWTON  BENNINGTON  ASKS 


MtiKnfflK' 

IS  01  Of  [DiSOS’S, 
mitSTIWTIOl 

Becoming  Feature  of  Pub- 
lie  Schools;  May  8e  In- 


"ORE  HI  1.1. j  MG" 


DENVER  (CO)  POST 


May  20,  1912 


ED'ISOrs .-NEW  PROCESS 


Fp^OWCENTRATINGORE 


What  He  Has  Accomplished  and  What  He 
Purposes  Doing— Method  Not  Perfected— 

,  First  Mill  to  Be  Built  in  Colorado^ 


/ 


NEWARK  (NJ)  EVENING  STAR 
Friday/  June  14/  1912 


MEW  TOUK  TIMES 
Tuesday#  June  25#  1912 
"EDISON#  T.A.  ~  PERSONAL" 


GIFT  TO  COLLEGE 


Has.  Botter,  Use  for  His  Mono^ 
...  -4  Electrical  Wizard1 

m1'  1  Says.  :  ", 

V-.  1  *  * 1 

'i: 'rhonUiH  A.  liaison  ivusioskcd  yes* 
!(urdi«  TSN-hte-'niifMe  In  -.  UCtvollyn 
|p.arir;Avosl  Untune,  .ll.'UIC!  *.««“  “"*1 
ItruUgSn'tllo-roport  Unit;  ho,  ,M;os 
moti! of  !  '  < '  • 

•sivoliSi- J»on>S.  Oiioilo .  the  MOpifUu, 
sottjianstliuio  or  •riclinology.  Bostpn. 
lshoS^Oi?'Sooonn:a*  utmost  trlBhlcnoil 
whou.^110  reporter  Informed  hlin^lliol. 


l  hud  a  billion  dollars  I  youldjj't 

‘muitel'such  a  sift  ns  you  speak -of.^ 
L{tf-Rockcrcllor  and^  Frkk^nnd  .^thu 

tncy^aoflft'know'what.toaii'wltli-lu 

gly.e. ‘their  •‘millions  to  the  coIIcbm  j 


EDISON  HAS  A  FLAG  NOW. 


Jio  request  ot  tlio  ‘liaison  K 

luinlnatlns  Company  or  Boslu . . 

the  Idea  or  an  Edison  fine  was  conceived, 
matin  %m*m>rk<3  m/tl'ln'  Breen  11'° 
von\lorftoa]iiym|iii'|Vuvu,'o£^VaJ^?llQn}alai'ed 
jtacktvsrd,  but  tho  cop_l a of^ 1 1 1 o^t  1 a  l^ jun u 


NEW  YORK  MORNING  SUN 
Tues.,  June  25,  1912 
"EDISON,  T.A. _ RERSONAt." 


EDISON’S  OWN  IXAG. 


i  Til 


1.  -  PERSONAL" 
JQRLD  (NYC) 


tOM  EDISON'S  VISIT  TO  HUNGARY. 


NEW  YORK  WORM) 


"MOTION  PICTURE  -  GENERAL." 

.June  7-9,  19I?. 


:l 


“WEST  ORANGE  -  LADORATOKY  -  GENERAL 


TACOMA  (WA)  LEDGER  NIMAUK  (MJ)  CALL 

Wed.,  July  03,  19X2  Sun.,  July  J/l.  1912 


EDISON  HA'S  FLAG  NOW 


EDMN’S  FORMER  PARTNER 
TO  ASK  AN  ACCOUNTING 


VICTOR  CO.  TO  SPEND  $1,500,000 
IN  ADVERTISING  FOR  ONE  YEAR 


NEWARK  (NJ)  NEWS 
July  15,  1912 


gPISON  TO  PITCH  BALL 
^EMPeOYES'  FIELD  DAY 


NEW  YORK  , JOURNAL 


July  17,  1.9.12 


2DISON  PLANS  TO 
LIGHT  COUNTRY  HOME 

scholimjju'UMi.ieli.iau  lighting  of  conn- 


NEWARK  (NJ)  EVE.  STAR 
Wednesday/  July  17/  1! 


.A.E.,  INC. 


GENERAL." 


NEWARK  NliWS 


"MOriCM  PICTURE  -  GENERAL'1 


EVENING  NEWS  -  NEWARK  (MJ) 
July  IB,  1917- 


DEPOSITIONS  IN 
«'  FILM  CO.  SPIT 

Examine  Orange  Han  to  Im*'; 
peach  Former  Edison  Han-' 
ager’s  Testimony. 

KINETOGRAPH  PROFITS  FIGHT- 


TRENTON  (NJ)  AMERICAN 


NAME  -  USE' 


August:  09,  1912 


DENVER  (CO) 
August;  OU,  iau; 


iOrange  Neighbors  Refuse  to 
"•fiName  School  After  the 
Famous  Inventor.  , 


>Yiwi  orange,  Aug.  8. — -Tlmt  tm  In-  | 


, _ _  |  U 'HONOR  EDISON. 

Proposal  to  'Nonio  Wont  Orange 
School  After  Him  Voted  Down. 

•  West  Grange,  N.  J„  Alts.  S.-TUut  an 
■  Inventor  ns  well  tta  a  iiruiitiot  Is  not 
without  tumor  anvo  In  Ida  own  country, 
was  llluatrntod  lioro  when  Mrs.  George. 
'Morale,  a  lueuthor  of  the  board  of  edu¬ 
cation,  fatted  to  got  her  colleagues  to 
agree  with  her  us  tu  the.  [U'oiirlety  of 
naming  a  now  public  school  utter 


‘.the 'general  public.  The  names  are  do- 
!  rived  from  historical  figures  aud  from 
streets,  usually  the  latter.  Mrs.  Merck, 
iwho  Is  the  pioneer  woman  member  of 
•'u  West  Orange  hoard  of  educatlou,  oug-, 
igcslcd  tlmt  a  school  which  thobourd; 
its  to  build  ut  onoo  bo  given  tho  gamo' 

to  The  majority  of  the  bourd,  howevetv 
decided'  that  Jfuirinount  would  b|gfl 


NEW  YOUK  TIMES 


August  17,  191?. 

FEDERAL  SUIT  AIMS  AT  V 
MQVIHG  PICTURE  TRUST 

in  Concorns  Accused  of  Com- 
binlng'  to  Monopolize 
tJio  Business. 

PATENT  LAWS  INVOLVED 

Government  Charges  Defen¬ 
dants  Oppressed  Bivals  Who 
Disobeyed  Mandates. 


3enornl  Him  Company  mid 
Picture  Patents  Company. 

Tho  politlon  nays  that  tlio  alloRca 
unlawful  combination  of  Iho  dofoudantB 
became  offcctlvo  January  1,  1010.  when 
Iho  Motion  nature  I’ntentB  Company, 
was  organized,  thla  ontanizalion  to  ho  i 
ft  holding  company  for  nil  tho  compniiiea 

Tho  potition  so 

\  ^  dof^mdant^Vho '  Put  entB  compiuiy'H 


iii  iho  ('ioviTmnont.  nuit,  wild  yaritunluy 
|  at  bin  onioo  nt«i  I'l^J^wnuothaL  Itw 


paper  accounta/ha  *  Ha id*!  *  OffleerH  of  tho! 
Gonoral  Comi jrnnjj, ^  u 'ltl  ^thoJ’nUn4 1 

;  dircctorfl  oMlto  companies  imiimMu^h 
-vuh  nothing  to  Bay  nt  present. 

SAYS  SUIT  WILL  AID  PUBLIC. 


uso  aiiy  but  tho  defendants’  exhibiting 
or  projecting  machines.  • 

Tho  General  Film  Company,  organized 
in  Maine  in  April.  1010.  nlloged  to  bo  tho 
agency  through  which  tho  defendants 
Him  aro  distributed  to  exhibitors  through¬ 
out  tho  country,  was.  formed,  the  potition  ( 

rental  exchanges  which  previously  di: 
tribulcd  tho  fUma.  V 

TJiis  company,  it  is.  declared,  has  a< 
quired .  tho  business^ 

Pat  outs-  ComRany  of  ovory  rental  c 
,  chango  in  tho  United  States,  with  01 

I*  exception,  at  a  ooHt  or  82.243,080  in  CO! 
and  *704.800  in  preferred  stock. 

The  following  corporations  n.ul  i 

BUlt?USlotfon  Pioturo  •  Patent*  Comimn 
Gonoral  Him  Company,  blograph  Cm 

.  , 

IBfiSSfS?® 

fesssr^ 

1. 1  A.  itcrut,  SoiKmand ■  l.ubln,  Gael 
Moltua,'  Albert  E.  Smith,  Goorgo  Iv.  8|k 
and  \V.  N.  . Selim  ^  llavi„g  ovor. 

stepped  tlw  lawffl 

W»"at«i  ■inwriochlnK  lleonBo 
restriction..,  tlw  ty  ng  w”ni  I 

feFSffl'SSffSi  AU  lot  I 
I  Wickorehnm  aim  James  A .  .r  owlor.  his 

j  say  dhaAh^  uuit ^i^ffirinun  l 

I  ^1  ^o^em^natio^f^oMlio1  relation  oAhiit 
j  btatuto  to  tfe^patont  1 

!  roonolmlies  ilifo  oim  big  nmi^l^Uwougii 
JuHoged  combinations  ami  agreoraents. 


II  f»"This  is  nows  to  mo,"  continued  I 
(  idont  NoIT.^but  if-  tho  ^Government 

j  hlghly^notlciftl  t^both  tlio^xliibltor  and 

NEWARK  (NJ)  NEWS 
Aug-  16/  1912 

i“M0¥IES”  HIT 

>  IN  TRUST  SUIT 

— — 

i  Combine  Held  to  Be  in  Violation 
j  of  the  Sherman  Law  by 
j  '  Government. 

|  EDISON  COMPANY  IS  INVOLVED 


Aug.  17,  1912 

iii  PICTURE  MEN 
SUED  AS  A  TRUST 

Government  Will  Tost  Compa¬ 
nies’  Patents  in  Suit'  Under 
tbe  Sherman  Act. 

$100,000,000  IN  THE  BUSINESS 


Public  Deprived  of  Competition,  the 
Department  of  Justice  Charges— 
Validity  of  Patents  Doubted. 


HERALD 


August  17,  1912 


EVENING 


federal  suit  to  break  /'/'V//J 

MOVING  PICTURE  TRUST 

I  hit.l«K.lphia,  A-U.  .  ^  ^  (.,c(l  ,)crc  lu.lhl).  fur  Uk 

Patents  Company  and  Uic  General 


to  I  MILLIONS  IN  -TUB  “MOVIES" 


MEW  YORK  WOULD 


l.ftWHEMCE  (MA)  AMERICAN 


10,  1912 


■BmS'ON'iTEALINQ  FORTY 
:  ■  ;  WINKS  AS  GUESTS  ARRIVE 

Argentine  Officers,  Accompanied  by  C.  M.  Schwab  and  A.  P; 
!;:i  Grace,  Catch  Inventor  Asleep— Demonstrates  Talking  • 
Picture,  Shows  Early  Wireless  Experiment  Record  . 


and  an  Ant  Battle. 


MON  STAGES  API 
ANTBATTLEWHILE 
.  SCHWAB  LOOM 


mi5S5S 


"PHONOGRAPH  -  GENERAL” 

MUSIC  TRADE  REVIEW  -  NEW  YORK 

faced  twclvc*in«i>  records  giving  the  tone, 


records  have  been..*  tied  after  a  year’s  wot 
Attention  in  als*  -d  to  the  advertising,  whi 
will  be  run  in  t\v  •  ty  of  the  leading  cducatioi 
maga -  begi"  0  September,  of  the  spec 
types  of  /ictori  .and  Viclrolas  most  desirable  I 
school  use.  Dealers  arc  also  furnished  with 
copy  of  the  circular  letter  sent  out  to  supervise 

booklets  relating  to  the  Victor  in  the  scl~»i 
which  have  also  bceii  compiled.  The  booklet 
elude  both  the  Victor  playground,  with  special 
tcnlion  paid  to  folk  dances,  singing  aud'gan 
and  dance  music  of  modern  charactcr^a/grad 
list  of  records  for  practical  school  use,  Avluph.l 
been  carefully  compiled— how  to  use  the /Victor 
the  schools,  an  interesting  booklet  telling  he 
when  and  where  to  use  the  Victor,  and  how  to  i 
the  best  effects,  and  a  book  of  "Encomiums  on  l 
Victor  in  the  Schools,”  containing  Setters  of  pra 
from  school  authorities  in  all  sections  of  the  cot 
try,  and  what  we  hear  in  music;  a  prospectus  I 
a  four  years'  course  of  study  of  music  for  hi 
school  pupils. 

NEW  EDISON  LINE  ON  EXHIBITION 


JACKSON  (TO)  SUN 
August:  29,  1912 


Options  on  Phosphate  Lands  in 
Hickman  Coupty  Arc 
Secured. 


MEW  YORK  SUN 


"ELECTRIC  LIGHT  - 


Sept.  03 ,  1912 


NEW  YORK  EVENING  SUN 
Sept.  06,  1912 


GREENVILLE, 


( 


JERSEY  CITY  (NJ)  JOURNAL 
Sept:.  13/  1912 

STATE  CRUM 
OP  COMMERCE  IS 

BEEN  ORGANIZED; 

- —  I 

Launching  Takes  Place  att 
Largely  Attended  Meeting  ; 
.in  Jersey  City. 

FREELINGHUYSEN  WILL  j 
HEAD’ THE  NEW  BODY 


SAGINAW  (MX)  POUR. -IIERALD 
Sept.  12,  1912 


a  iJ 


DETROIT  (HI)  PRESS 
Sunday)  Soph-  1.1 ,  .1 


I'JI'A 


"PHONOGRftPU  -  GEMKRftl." 


M1NNKSPOI.I.S,  MINT. 
Snhuirtlny,  Sept.  Rl  > 


ffl®  BANKNOTES 
:  'ARE  INVENTED^ 


Mr.EdlSbn  Dares  Baggage 
.  Men  to  Smash  Express  Box 


Inventin'  Tests  Out  New  EJjjUgJ 
V '  graph  Shipping  liise  on  j 
■  wwwwlone  Journey. 


•r  csS";Sii"T 


CLiJ 


NOVEL  FEATURES  ARE 
;  _ FOR  COMING  El 

Telephone's  Will  Convey ' 

'  Theatre  Music  to  . 


'  Edison  made  tho  prediction  or  81188®*“! 
.Uflnjhril  tho  houoo  of  tho  future  would 
xonohu^nf*  rclnforcod  conoroto  poured 


CASEIN cocur  : 
FORjMEARSj 

Goulds  and  Edison  to  ■ 
.Reaoli  Agreement. 


^How  E disongiW^QU  1  d  i  E  d  u  c  a  t  e  Childre- 

He  is  Planning  to  Rev<  liZni^ducabo^  Through  'the  Medium 'of  the  Wonderful  Moving  Picture 

■■ , .; . : . ^aa&asi. ,j.,  „„ - -  -  -  ~  - 


na^rl^  t*»eir  practical  appricntloii.  I 

tor’slaborato ry.'atipranBC,  I#  J;;$»iul  If  qualified  joi  do  full  justice  to 


"EDISON,  T.fl. 


PERSONAL 


NORWALK  (Oil)  REFLECTION 
OcLober  05,  1912 


VANCOUVER  (uc)  PROVINQK 
OcL.  26,  1917. 


HIE  CARO 
IN  EDISON’S 
.  LABOBATORV 

WIZA UD  OF  M 15NJ.0  PAIUC  KEEPS 

-  .TUApK'OK  NUMUkit  of  nouns’ 


SENT  THREATENING 
LETTERS  TO  EDISON 

Man  Held  at  Baltimore  May  Bo 
the  One  Who  Threatened 


McKinley. 


UNION  DISPATCH 
OcL.  22,  1912 


!  EDIS0UTp:FffrEp^v557:  :• 
MpTHER-IN:0[Wi 

;  raVnui  1  ISlifop  of  Wool  Onium 
r  I'l.fnVAkroji.  .Oliip,.!  today*  t.i  •«  t  tend  folic) 
[iunj-r'.il  -of  Mrs.VLe«;is.  Miller,  Mrs.' 

[*  3/ih.  Miller,  followin';  n  fall,  Itml  Coen! 
f  !ti;  ill  *  hca  l.thvfo'r:  noftrljrjr  year: ;» tjlio^yaw 
jt'jgljty’ft^n-yenrs-oldf 'ihe'.wiilov.’/of^one} 
fof'.tlic* founders  of’tiic.-Cliautauqua^  :  \i 


NEW  YORK  AMERICAN 
OcL-  10,  1912 


idison  Opens  tfe£912fj 
.  Electrical  Exposition] 


WASHINgrOM  (nc)  TINES 
OcLober  07,  1912 


Galis  Roosevelt  Only  Candi- 


THE  POSTON  HERALD 
171  Trenjont  Street 
BOSTON  (HA) 

October  09 ,  1912 


NEWARK  (NJ)  CALL 
1912 


.EDISON’S  FORMER  PARTNER  ' 
TO  ASK  AN  ACCOUNTING 


MAY  AMEND  PATENT  LAW. 


DETROIT  (HI) 


What  candle  tower  Is  “l^m^^Qiffurer 


ro  hns  boon  ttio  rlslu-ioars 
Diiblo  libout  ovor  llld  loft  lo 
:iUl  will  pro-  BUddoulyUllrli  ot 

o  point  out.  a  slight  irall  rosl 
ns  with  an  conversation  pro 


HARTFORD  (CN)  COURANT 
Thursday/  Oct.  17i  1912 


t  TO  SELL  LEEDS  & 
\  c  att  in  rn  nmi 


JI'.ItgCT  Cm  (NJ)  JOURNAL 


GAM  CO.  BUILDING  j  I  odd  phonograph 


mDbLBTOWN  PHONOGRAPH  I 
CONCERN  WILL  NOT  I 
RESUME.  j 


Propose  Toi'.  Have  Presidential 
.  !  Election  Among  High  School 

j  '  .'(Eupils.  ...  j 


n;.l  b  e  Jill  i 

to  I  Is .  •  ViscU.  *  «s  •■'rccor<i.H :  t  ^on :  tjiesc 
Li  tiiiej.l  jVou  .Tnft^bt^tji’nriHod  Ho 
Ilia  tv  ftiii«pJtnacVMHj  WpK  iv&ift:  '(■ 
k|  alniv 


BOSTON  (MA)  POST 
October  20,  1912 


NX  WALL.  STREET  JOURNAL 


October  21,  1912 


WHAT  IS  THE  LIFE  OF  J 
AN  EDISON  BATTERY? 

BY  M.’  It.  HUTCHIjil 


JII  of  till!  Charleston  .CoiiyoUdaVgl 
,  invIuilillB  all  of  ittl  WhnrAprlW- 
Clmrloslon  liarbof,  rh'i!  rtHMhV 
III  to  tlio  Islu  of ;  Pajms,  loKOthci 
l  the  power  house  of  Sullivan’s 
•  c*  “Me,  of  I  Charleston,  who 
on  the  Isle  of  Palms. 

. . .  . .  . . ;ile  says  ho  hopes  to 

t  aiJOut  the  establishment  of  a  summer  and  winter 
■t  ill  Mount.  Pleasant  ttml  to  open  w  n  prosperous 
I  fanning  community  alone:  the  lino  of  vou|l.  He  also  say. 
that  should  conditions  in  the  future  warnlut  it,  ho  expects 
-  construct  a  railway  lino  from- Mount  .Pleasant  to  Me- 
.a . in.  wliieli  it  is  Ilia  present  intention  to  open¬ 

's.  At  Lire  Islo.of  u’alins  tlioro  are 
“-  ,<1  it  lias  been  . ai  resort  for  some 
time  uuruiK  mo  suinmei  months.  It  is  (now.  planned  to 
construct  a  lame  winter  hotel,  undthc/'newowner  of  tho 
property  believes  Unit  it  can  bo  nintio  u. popular  result  foi 
a  lai-Eo  part  of  the  winter  Lraftic  which  now  koos  to 
Florida'."  In  tho  city  of  Charleston  the  railway  into  ho- 
twcou  East  Bay  street  and  the  water  front  bolonEitiR  to  , 
tlio  Consolidated  company  was  included  in  the  deal.  1  l,e 
'  paid  for,  the  pi;opert>;,has. not. been'. made  iinblic. 


AMERICAN  PAINT  &  Oil  DEALER 
October _ ,  19.1.2 


•;  liet  woiMi  Unit  cilv  a 


That  day  In*  limit  1 
operator  to  wire  an 
on  alieoil  of  Ids  train.  At  every  stnlloll  llo  wi 
liosieBeil  by  anxlmia  iinmlrers  lor  papers,  si 


retailers  lie  would  have  had  the  lulOBrnuhor 
wire  the  filet  that  Edison  was  oil  the  train  Willi 
a  big  supply  of  fresh  papers,  hut  would  proli- 


CHICAGO  (II.)  JOURNAL 
October  10,  1912 

The  Perfect  Storage  Battery 

I  hins-lioon  l/veuteil  df!)  last.L  J£vcryn 
trllAvHTc  In  working orflfrt^jivcrytmii  in 


Cot  that  reason  botoro  tlio  people.  Never  mind 
the  advertiser’s  personality  Ciot  at  the  reason 
why  tho  public  wants  thorn,  and  bo  sure  to  ho 
on  tho  rlElit  apot  for  ilclivorliis  tho  gouds  whoa 
pnliUc  enthusiasm  Is  aroused.— Cumniorclnl 
Journal 


O') 


"STORAGE  BATTERY* 


ELECTRICAL  WORLD  (NY)  October  26,  1912 

New  Apparatus  and  Appliances 

EDISON  ALTERNATING-CURRENT  RECTIFIER.  ci?c«U.  “  lltt 


i  u  working 
nd  mills  store’ 
e  batteries,  for  j 


UOSTQN  (HA)  RECORD 
November  00/  1912 


i  There  in  nothing  to  get' out  01  or 


Roosevelt,  w 
| the  Colonel.  . 

Col.  Itoosevclt  ti»inl:_j>( 


HEULflMU  (Cfl)  LUsVlEW 
x  NovenOec  01>  1.012 


CUiiricsVlSillsbnlf 


a  Ot  Thomas  l  ivlisutl, ! 


WASHINGTON  (IA)  JOURNAL 
Novrinbeir  US,  1912 
TEST  EDISON  3-CAR  TRAIN! 


fork.— Successful  tests  of  a 
Haiti  of  Kdison  storage  bat*  I 
(  were  made  during- tlio  past 


Wost  OrilCT  ami  Forest  1II1I.  They 
havo  encouraged  Thomas^  A.  Edison 
In  such  u  degree  .that  he  luur^ffiWgeU 

to  Long  11  ranch.  InvUntlons  liavobceri 
v.  Kdison  >v'lll  bo  of  the  Iiarty.’dud  it 


S  rulo  of  silence  in  public  and  icnlto'  a 


NEW  YORK  WOIU.D 
NOV.  07,  191?. 


NASHVILLE  (TO)  DEMOCRAT 

Nov.  03,  1912 

NEW  ORLEANS  (LA)  ITEM 

^  Nov.  03,  1912 

Aids  for  Women  of  the  Future 

tlu>  I-  uturo,"  iM'Miluil  ill  tiuoil  lIoiiHii.  I  I»I»L  mnl  "ill  |ierfw in  it  fur  her  bettor 

x  uua.  SOP 

.  Says  He  Favors 
Votes  for  Women 

in vi's tij'uUonTfc11i'  iVltls!c*ivi th  thu  aid 

cun l»U>«l  to  reproduce  sin*»oiH*  notes  o 

llueuce  of  this  advance  will  Ins  Hturtliiij 
jy  to  improve^  the  singing  of  tins  work 

It  will  open  to  lie**  mnl  her  children,  at 
small  cost,  a  vast  muss  «f  music  which 
hits  hitherto  been  denied  them  at  any 

expenditure  of  mothers'  time  as  1ms  been 
given  to  producing  for,  and  teaching  to, 

covoiy  of  imperfect  ion*  which  in  tli 

this  ’  will  ciioriiioualy^iinJAify 1 Jp  to  bon 

the  children  of  the  past  crude  music  on 
pianos  or  wliut  not. 

IWith  the  homo  ^picture  machine,  now 

ori'tmjy!  "Tlf^rcvc" 

sSIsIs 

jH'rs "^H‘'CL0Ito^-  ^  “'7 

iV‘  “‘imUiV'l,; 

kuSw  1  'tit  II,  r°  tl  ‘  1 

•SE5S^“‘! 

NEW  YORK  (NY)  AMERICAN 

Mov.  07,  1912 

EDISON  COULDN'T  CASTJOTE 

|  luctruiUy  'admitted  at  West  Orunso 

l«r,  moth  or  of  Mrs.  Kdlson. 

"EDISON,  T-A.  -  L'ERSONAI." 

ROCHESTER  (HI)  DEMOCRAT 

LESLIES'  WEEKLY 

November  30#  1912 

Nov.  07,  19.1.2 

l-loiiorinjr  n  Ruinous  liiv 

When  emson 

T'SrHS:^ 

WAS  PENNILESS 

;  IN  ROCHESTER 

Hadn’t  at  that  Time  Earned 

Title  ol  Wizard. 

DOWN  TO  PRICE  OF  A  LOAF 

Wu'ardaKKKrce.1  ...  K.vo  aan-a  caarc.  ''  ‘ 

Tolls  Charles  It.  Barnes  ol  Time 
When  He  Spent  His  Only  Nickol 

totwecnS  and  T^o Vlock°i u*\ bo^munil iik  H°\v  w Kfll(W 

,  This  Clly-jnEven  Then  Inventing 

kod- slowly  imllt-ii.un  a  JbiK 

IP? 

^S;LE^^r!r£s!ri 

off  iu  Um»  Morse  cotlt^'lVle  caim?  aromH,  r, a, hu-'s 't  1. ***  '* 

L  '  Big  Thine  for- Lawyer.  .... 

\'x “Edison  sank  Vnek'dn  Ills  clmir  as  k  iih*L« w Mw «»»«•>  l>- 

sifS  “EHE'iFuEiii'pi 

EHv rr^'r,  "iV : '  "T,  r  ,i'.L  *'•"  1 '  •  ’ 

& r  v.5r  \ . 1 . . . 

finally  they  met  one  of  the  jmliiv-eourt  y,.*.  in*: 

Jawyors  of  the  day,  who  took  the  ease  That  w . . . . . . 

Manaaer  Called  Him  Crazy.-  ■ 

fpIlshcd^The  fcud^ldJu^usauiie^ 

iyoar*  job'or'you^wiii  lafE 

j-lmow  .it.*  Thai* didn't  ftiue  JJUl«ou.  ;J 

'.^inpn^d^S!dMi^nl^Vi^ld*ldS 

Jrnit  ot'?he Arliade  totull..*  siJSf • ‘IjoJ 

•turned. down  n  aide  street.  • 'llpfow  him' 
loomed- up  a  rIjiii.  It.. was  thu  Hi«n  of! 

C-AN.  EDUCATION 


.'FRANK  L,  DYER  DINED 
BY  EDISONEMPLOYEES 

Silver  Loving  Cup  to  Retiring 
Head  of  Companies 

SIXTY  ASSOCIATES  ATTEND 


LOS  ANGELES  (CA) 
EXPRESS 

November  OS <_19J.2„, 


ended  tlm  dinner  wore: 

John  V.MIllor,  E.  J.  UorgRrcn,  P. 
C.  Dolbccr,  L.  ;  C.  McCheanoy,  W. 


"T.fl.B./  INC.  -  ORGAN.ITIATKJN" 


AMERICAN  (Mew  York) 
Nov.  19,  19.12 


EVENING  NEWS 
Nov..  10/  1912 


Edison  Oo.  :D.enies 
•  Planning  "^hake-up”' 

Following  tlio  publication  In  MoNeyvj 

■that  Frank  L.  Dyer,  had  roslghiid  .  usi 
'president^  anil  legal [advisor;  ol 
•Thotnua  A- 'l2dlBo»^c<wpor»itlohs; ;.iij : w'uo | 
}rcportod  -  In k  ' jp*?* 


i«Jn' takes  the! 

to  the  technical  details.,  which. he. has, 
always  had  charge  of.  .No  other  changes 
hi  officials  or  personnel  of  the  company; 


EDISON  TAKES  \ 
DYER’S  PLACE 

Inventor  Assumes'  Presidency 
of  Companies'  Bearing 
.  His  Name.  '  ;  : 


HITHERTO  ONLY  A  DIRECTOR 


"huumon  picruuE  -  -  education" 


UMITI.ESV1LI.E  (OK)  IUCAI.TON,  James 

Mov.  19,  1912 


LEARN  FROM  lOTiONHCVURB 

i  .  Children  "Hate"  School  Bcijauic  TcxtbooUa  *£  Dry  and  Color. 

i  ^sssxssss;  jtpszzim  «,• 

Allan  L.  Ucnson  hi  the  World  T9ilay.  j  .Ircja’a  eyes.  Do  J-0“ 


"EDISON,  T.A.  -  PERSONAL" 

COMPLEMENTS  OF  EUGENE  II.  GRUUD  DENVER  POST  November  22,  1912 


New  Storage  Battery  Solves  Problem  of  Cheap 
Traction-System  of  Moving  Picture  and 
Phonograph  Explained. 


&  2.X 


NOVEMBER,  1912 


Edisorf  as  a  Manufacturer 

cBh  H.(5edford-Jones 


POPULAR  ELECTRICITY  MAGAZINE 


the  size  of  the  industry,  and  arc  located  centrally.  The 
Thomas  A.  Edison  Company,  Inc.,  is  the  "holding  com- 


;!•  . . 


S  t  II  ji  ti  p)  i)  « 


the  others,  and  here 


manufacturer, 


POPULAR  ELECTRICITY  MAGAZINE  G33 

on  a  certain  part  of  the  storage  bat-  they  arc  in  truth,  factories,  andtliat  there 
ten-.  When  this  article  appears  there  is  a  factor  behind  them,  a  man  of  dynamic 
will  lie  only  three  men— hut  new  energy,  whose  personality  is  injected  into 
machines.  Eighteen  months  ago  the  out-  and  through  them  all  ceaselessly,  and 
put  of  batteries  was  -oo  a  week ;  when  whose  message  is  drilled  into  man  and 
this  article  appears  the  output  will  he  machine  alike,  not  for  today,  but  for  a 
1S00  a  week.  So  it  goes  throughout  all  century  lienee— “He  sure  you’re  righl. 
tlie  Edison  factories.  You  realize  that  Then  go  ahead.” 


FIRST  -QUARTZ  LAMP  INSTALLATION  IN  THIS  COUNTRY 


The  accompanying  picture  is  from  a  photograph  was  taken  by  the  light  of 


Henry  Romeike,  be. 


O  Seventh  A 


■  NSW  YORK 

-BOMEIKC^NEW  YORK 

IddroW^^How  York  CHy. 


Edison  Not  Film  Inventor 
Washington,  Dec.  a.— Thomas  A.  Ed! 
. . to  have  been  the  in 


he  District  ... 

li  revoked  the  decision  of  the  ] 

L  Banting  an  injunction  mid  dan 
a»yE»f  CI,ic„S“l5nm  "s“in3t  ”  , 

<&'?“!£,  T-- tur  ■ ' 


<\  /•*>  A  : 

Henry  Romeike,  be 


Henry  Romeike,  be 

The  First  Established  and  Most  Complete 
Newspaper  Cuttiac  Bureau  lit  the  World 

From  MORNINO  TELEGRAPH 


Now  Tork. 


EDISON  LOSES  $1,20b^m: 

Supreme  Curl  net.....  K.Ttesr 

of *« 
n-iinst  the  heirs  of  Jay  Gauld.nnd  .the. 

ifie*B»assfeSw- 

[  dupleX-, ,  i'5 '  ?E-\-  «&nrem  e‘ 

Intended  for . J . - . 


Henry.  Romeike,  be. 


| ■.  ^  sp1 1- jassiByp.”, A??!"  l"° 


01  Columbia  t 
,  decision'  of 


ST'mivfng.  Picture'  fUms 
discovered  or  produced  by.  Ed-.£ 
llson*  but  by  a  manufacturer  of^plto-. 

|  pictures  1' 


I  M  ^  fon)e  power  ihMBWS  c 

<1  if  To  ««  «“r,el’B  ,U‘C“ 

Henry  Romeike,  i 


"''oaaZFi,*n><M'M . i  CT.*J  , 


; EASTMAN,  M^\i 
i -EDISON,  INVENTOR  j;;:' 
■j,  ^PICTURE  FILII 

I  DistrltCoL Columbia  Court! 
Denies  Latter’s  Claims. 


EDISON  INVENTED  MACHINE  j 


OF  CLMLNT 


®I)C:  piUslmvo 


Sights  at  Big;Exposition 
Irt* . '  ■  Will  Surprise  .the  Visitors 


•  0\'M;'350t'diibifo^|®ej)i,f  '*i; 

'  Fiter'ests^VVyi  8jm».wi 

h  5  jf  v;  Buck.  munugof  at  tho  ComonUj 


^Djvbrsifiprl  f— "••j.t  iai- 
'(  F.— Uu»*%.  t  iblZ^t  .1 


CROWDS: 


VuporvlBlon.  or  tho  work  comedo) 
^Ujijiho  oiicttiug-  ot  •  what •  jironite v 
tp'ibotho  greatest  qemopt.  ahow  .o^y^ 

to  •‘hold  -  In  tho  Exposition  .building;  Jorj 
*a  week  boglnuluB  Docombor  12. 
i  '.President  Edward  ?>I.  Ilagur  *of?.tho| 


tfatioLul  Association  ot  Cement  •-'Usfera 


always  excited  popular  intorc 
own,'  eutlroly  constructed  o£  .cl 
roproduclog'ap  actual  coiurai 
SstnMlshod  ;  py  '^d  -  Doldiya 


Iprlvod  ot  Mils  toed.  . CuusutiuonUy,  tho. 
ovinur's  'profit  Is  largely  Increased' 
through  tho  greater  iiroductloa  '  of 


’"I  Mayor  William  A.  Mugoo  willfoA  V( 
'‘molly : 'open  tlio  couvontlon,  and  the 
{greatest  vitliorltlca  on  tlio  uses  pied,l  tc 
Imohiavlll-  dolivcr.nddrcsscs  during  t  la  ci 
'nessldua  of  tlio  convontlqn.  ,  The  clt  Ml  T 
jo?<Now-.York,  Chicago,,  Boston  anij » 
!? 

sit 'Sabidis^ivo^vin 

'exhibitors  at  the  cement. allow,; thoTUtK  51 
jreau»of  Standards'  having  prepared} an  .  »< 
Exhibit  of  tho  Government's  testis*  ,«< 
•apparatus,  comprising  tho  methods]  of  Ip! 
pfliyulcnl  uud  chemical  testa,  such'fas 


Wisconsin  ^tuto .  Agricultural  .C 
. . mil 


YORK  COMMERCIAL'.  SATURDAY.  DECEMBER 


An  Interview  with  Thomas  A.  Edison 

Mr.  Edison,  will  electricity  in  any  way  effectively  contribute  to  a  reduc¬ 
tion  in  the  cost  of  living?  It  so.  in  what  way  and  to  wnat  .  . 

“Yes,  it  has  reduced  the  cost  of  living  or  it  would  not  he  so  extensively 

in  the  light  of  present  day  development  of  electricity,  what  arc  the 
POiS"Th1lHsIru'rgc' qucsUon  C  me  loTnlwcr.  In  fact  Hie  possibilities  are 
w3wil.  iT,': development  as  regards  the  use  of  wireless  waves  for 
"“SZZ  Uiink°there  wii.  be  any  development  in  that  line.  Wirc.ess  will 
in  the  expeCaUm.  ^  wireless  waves 
will  become  commercially  practicable  for  power  purposes? 

“I  do  not  think  the  wireless  wave  '’''‘.^“"V^fnown  may  be  d  s«v- 
roses,  although  at  some  future  tune  something  now  unknown  nay  not 

cred  that  would  change  n»y  opinion,  but  so  tar  as  i  Know 

Problems  are  you  undertaking  to  sotve  a,.,  what  relations  do  they 

bear  to  humonitenamsm  and  human  achievement?  scholars 

....  „ 

I  •  “I  have  started  a  force  of  men  to  teach  books  What  I  have 

be  taught  that  should  be  most  taught  without  t  recent  issue  .of  the 

S^Ttaf^ 

o'pe^feet'1  musical  instruni^t^fn^my^lai^e  disc  ^phonograph.  ^  five 

“These  two  things  will  occupy  will  "be  on  exhibition  this 

“The  speaking  picture  which  I  ha  (  Hone  to  make  an  exhibition  at  my 

ass:  7 

VMt  SXrr«aUv“  OCX'  s^age  -attery  for  motor  traction  without 

a  central  plant?  ^  .  pet(cclc(,  n  has  now  been  running  for  over  three 

sififSSSS?  sfe WsSn  of  a^gTtrwm  ^ 

employment  to  an  additional  2.aou  men  buildings  of  ids  immense 

Here  Mr.  Edison  slopped  to  indicate  t hat  a  o  nrstb laboratory,  which 

ni-.nl  were  buill  oil  concrete  and  steel.  ou‘3i“„„  .n.„  enlire  Edison  System 

w  S  5ZS  eVdco  ipu  ^S°m"e  — r 

seeJ^S 

SSrSVS  battery acars?d*  ^  ^  lQ  bc  conferred? 

%  Erie^aiiromf 

ffi  SSn  of  this  improved  suburban  service u  ^  „  I10W  in 
use  liF^tlav^a^i'^ll^accoinit'oMests  of  Havana's  .^ra^”v^n|nt*1ga^ylloperation 
*t-°scd  hAnobtS  storage  ~ 

Efeli^  S„aonw^nin?  aU  Ter  S?  wo^-in  Japan,  Australia  ami 


BUFFALO  SUNDAY  TIMES. 


SAY'THEIR' PRESENT 
!  LEAD  BATTERY  STANDS 
'  SERVICE  TEST  BEST 

I  ti,p  Bnlicock  Electric  Carriage  Cora- 
puny -announces  that,,  alter.  It  .has  tried 


Unbound  Clippings  Series 
Clippings  (1913) 

These  clippings  cover  the  year  1913.  Most  of  the  items  are  taken  from 
newspapers,  but  there  are  several  longer  magazine  articles  as  well.  Many  of 
the  clippings  relate  to  the  introduction  of  the  kinetophone  (a  motion  picture 
synchronized  with  a  phonograph),  which  caused  a  brief  but  intense  sensation 
in  cities  and  towns  across  North  America.  Included  are  articles  about 
kinetophone  films  planned  or  produced  by  Edison  on  political  subjects,  as  well 
as  his  attempt  to  secure  dramatic  artists  such  as  Sarah  Bernhardt.  Other 
topics  include  Edison's  receipt  of  the  Rathenau  safety  medal  for  his  battery- 
powered  miner's  lamp;  attempts  by  the  Industrial  Workers  of  the  World  and 
the  American  Federation  of  Labor  to  unionize  the  employees  at  Edison's 
manufacturing  plants;  and  the  replacement  of  his  battery  production  facility 
with  a  new  building. 

In  addition,  there  are  clippings  relating  to  activities  of  Edison  family 
members,  including  Charles  Edison's  decision  to  drop  out  of  M.l.T.  and  go  to 
work  for  the  Boston  Edison  Co.;  his  visit  to  Colorado  during  the  summer;  a 
minor  injury  sustained  by  Theodore  Edison  when  a  homemade  bomb  in  a 
glass  bottle  exploded;  and  Theodore's  arrest  for  speeding  and  driving  without 
a  license  in  his  father's  new  touring  car. 

Approximately  30  percent  of  the  clippings  have  been  selected.  In 
addition  to  numerous  duplicate  versions  of  most  of  the  stories,  the  unselected 
items  include  speculative  articles  about  the  impact  of  talking  motion  pictures 
on  the  legitimate  theater;  descriptions  of  traveling  kinetophone  exhibitions  in 
various  towns;  news  stories  about  local  Edison  utility  companies;  and  dealer 
advertisements  for  the  Diamond  Disc  phonograph. 

Additional  clippings  about  the  introduction  of  the  kinetophone  can  be 
found  in  Cat.  44,489,  Cat.  44,490,  and  Cat.  44,491  in  the  Scrapbook  Series. 


BOSTON  (HA)  CimiS.  SCI.  MON. 
January  06/  1913 


NEWARK  (NJ)  STAR 
January  00,  1913 


Iji'^riumphs  ill  the  field  of  invc'Htjpn  have' 

'•■'•''•‘TWaletl;  fhat  of  the.biographi .<ia«nato-- 

■  grapITSr  motion-picturcmachine/J”  Tpdhose 
;  .who  market  its  wares  and  :'whb:i]?e?jt‘  Ss  an 
:  instrument  of  gain  it  lias  brougJ)({A\V.it.t  and 
:  expansive  fortune.  ;  Theater/" s'Clft'A'iCchureh;  • 

Ilian  and  workshop  have ■  he'en:  aflf.ctetl;  by  its 
competition  or  enlarged  in  fheir^acil/lics  by 
its  use.  The  outer-  founds  :dM-*W«»tion,- 
where  barbarians  bartcr:thej'?casfi'fJS?1y  foK.. 
a  sight  of  its- marvels,  haveificdn'iSShshed.by  the  device  in  the  hands 
of  shrewd,  acquisitiveiopcratbreS^'i^rcUy.  a  great  public  work  or 
task  of  engineering  is  iibw  begimll'',jirtio'ut  provision  being  made  for 
workersfentLu-taihnieut:with'thcangfiP1i‘Pi,i!.'!r<:s'.:''’heh,thc.i:lay’s  work 

hew  instnime't)(jlor  ;tc^^.an4®pijpj^ig|(%^jiy' of  •  thc/eye,  peda- 
i  "SOgjcs jarido:l\bniiieti.cs-iby -iithc:.e<tp^^ing,/i.ch'SlI'eiigfeU;  in.' a  .supremacy. 

;  hilhertOialmd^jmdisputecjb;^ .; 
5-.;;:.  '  No/  sp.epi^//acute%insigl\t3ji5,'/fea\iy .  inference1  were !  necessary,  i 
.  'when  the.  motion-picture  jnecliarii^tnSirbvcdfcomhierci'aliy  sound  ■  to  j 
’  si  e  tl]at  if  it  cotildbe  adjustC(l;to’:s|huiltanedus'nts'e  with. a' phonograph  ! 
'  or  voice-record  the  ^combihatibn.lj.wpuid/  be'.- a  triumph,  whether 
1  ^viewed,  from  thc/inveiitor’shprht^liiytestihg  capitalist's  standpoint. 
Bin.  to  intake  tKet.^|^^^t,vt«i^^^,he:^yliidtroniaihg  mechanism; 

.  to  invest-the  requisite  capital;  irtVex/perinieiitatioii— these  were  not  for 
1  the  many  .but  for/thb  fetv;  h/Oi  coui'se/  itywas  inevitable  'that  among  ' 
'.  those 'lcwigrappjing..with.tlie.fascfhatrng. problem  should -be-Thomas  ■ 
'■  A/,, EdiiiiSall-Iisi- relations/ with 'the. /basic'' technical  .issues .‘involved; i 
i .  had  beeh'/such  as/to  lead  him  to  the  task/V..'.Nb  resources  in  the.  way 
:  of  money, '  expert* aid,  and' '-’experimental; laboratory, equipment  were 

■  wanting.: i  -  Plus  'these  'was  ihis'^own/geitius  /for:  conquest  in  just,  such  ; 
ventures;  ’Consequently  it  ;is;no(;.aui^risihg;tb:rcad:.of  his  triumph.  ! 

.  Speech  and  action  have  beeiV/hTOicssed;!  to  pull  together.  To  the 
orator's  .'gesture  will  now  be/accuratelyt/attuned  his  'yariabje  tones 
and  successive  -tyords.  .  To.  .the. -jy'onclrous  pageantry  of-  a  durbar 
will  he  added  the  murmur  of -tlicihjuUitmle  that  look's  on.  Bernhardt 
hot  only  may  be  secn  ingreat  jctiifg/;;shc  may  be  heard  in  the  accom¬ 
panying  greatness  of  speech.''.  Casting 'aside  all  thought  of  tem- 
’  poyary,  amusement,  what  possibilijics-and  marvels  in  the  way  of  an 


L'OISON  WANTS"  ' 

1  TAXESfOUCED 


Wizard  Appoals  to  County| 
Board  from  Assessment  - 1 
in  Bloomfield. 


(NAME  OF  PAPER  IS  HISSING) 
January  03,  1913 


1-aXU'SVll.I.F,  (I'A)  CHRONICLE  PI'.  DODGE  (1A)  CHUON1C1.I 


January  25,  X9X3 


January  7A,  .19X3 


January  03 /  X9J.3 


‘POLYFORM’ STILL 
HAUNTS  EDISON 

SecomlvSuit  Begun  by  Wizard 
to  Stop  Unauthorized  Use 
of  Name. 


IT'S  A  PAIN-KILLER  AFFAIR 


NEW  YORK  (?) 

January  04,  19X3  (U) 


" EDISON, 


-  PEKSOMAI." 


MEW  YORK  WOULD 
January  10 ,  1913 


(») 


IIUEEAI.O  (MV)  TIMES 
January  j.7,  1913  (l>) 


lOVINGRIGTURES 

mnsEDisoi 

SHYWOULDj 

Inventor  in  Demonstration  Repro-i 
ducos  Voices  and  Music  in 
Accord  with  Scenes.  > 

OPERA  NOW  IN  REACH  OF  ALLj 

Breaking  of  Plates  and  Barking  of| 
Dogs  Show  Act'and  Sound 
Perfectly  Timed. 


[ROTHENAU  MEDAL 
•  TO  I  PRESENTED 
;  TO  THOSi.  EDISON 

jHcls  the  First  American  to  Re¬ 
is  ceive  Prize  Coveted  by  Sci- 
\  I;  entists  Abroad-Pros-  ' ; 
entation  Jail.  23. 


EDISON  FAVORS  KITES  \  i 
TO  SAVE  LIFE  AT  SEA 


Inventor  Recommends  Their  Use  to 
Cnrry  n  Line  Ashore  When  Vos-  S 
sols  Are  Stranded. 


HEW  HAVEN  (CJ)  J 


January  04,  1913 


lEEiLiioif 

IN  MOVIES, 

.l  Edison  Porfoots  Inv^iition  Oom.' 

1 1  binlng  phonoijrftph  AtjcTMov-  ! 

I  ing '.PiotiiiV  M^hinb'.  ;  ! 


jfeptlnc'-'th©  negligible  oxpenso 

‘•(about the  eamo  ns  In  tho'  enuo 
tpresent  moving  plctur©  machli 
However,  •  the  old  and  tho  n< 


-r..v«.  ~  .thieklnetophone..  Only,  when 
'«  con»ldor.;.tJia  present.  difficulties,  In 
,  .hV  way.^of  ..corroctly;  reproduclng  /a  , 
jplay,  evon :  pnly  optically,  dpVwo  fully 
japproclato  lts-usefuln©3H.  v  A  -frequent?. I 
er  •  of  tho  •'••movies".  hardly  8topa;-toM 
^thlnk.how  absurdly  unhatural  aro  the1 
i actions  In  .our,  presqnt  Aims.  And  It  is'1 
jwlth  extreme  difficulty"  that 

■present,  moving. pIcturea./WlthflimuTl  I 
uitoheous  speeoh,  all  of  the  unnatural- 
Jqualitlcy  aro  .romoved.  .  It  Is  hopodi  to 
(reproduce  accurately.;  many  . modern* 
l|mKWoSSoT?lfeyV°vont?  n8va  lcst  o£  tho 

i  moving  pictures  In  tho  United,  States. 

( Ovor-volevcn  >  thousand  theaters  show 
I  thorn  exclusively,*  whlK  «>»....■ 

:  produce  vaudeville  In  co 


January  09 ,  1913 


EUISI'S  Si  QUITS 
SCHOOL  FOR  SHOP 


Studies  Storage  Battery  ■■Problem  That 
His  Father  Never  Has -Com- , 
pictcly  Solved. 


BOSTON  (HA)  GAHETTH 
January  04,  1913 


?  ,  (NY)  LEADER 

January  06,  1913 


MILWAUKEE  (WI)  WISCONSIN 
January  04,  1913 


|  ■  CBOWDIWG-  THE  ACTORS  j  ] 

■thc.:«etia'iftrj’ate  actors  a  hard^ilow^ 
Hc'lins'hitchcd  thc  plij^iti^itio  thc  rnSVlngiilcinrc' 
inadiin6,.a>KVno\\vti'ev^j^j™^^i;.tolk. 

When  the  bcstf  plays Reading  actors  can  bo 
seen,  and  beqrd^r  a-' mck^dielre;is  going  to  be  mighty 
little  room  iii  ttio  dramntic'pio^.essioh  except  at  the  top.  . 


BOSTON  (MA)  RECORD 
January  07,  19X3 


CHICAGO  (IL)  TOST 
January  06,  1913 


WITHIN  AM)  SOUND  CO.MUINUb. 


Ill'll  ivhi-ai>;il  ui'  the  device  its  projector. 


lie  bit  “raw"  mid  that  perfection  could 

dorfiil  and  were  deeply  impressed  with 
il.s  possibilities. 

Tin?  motion  picture,  already  the  valued 

thus  to  "provide  the  greatest  dlvorsHy 
Ju  aniusomeiit.  The  .Block  companies 

;  give' thorn  voice.  productiom-.Monologuea 


i  ioii-plcturc  displays  hove  been  accompa¬ 
nied,  when  possible,  by  "off-stage  ef¬ 
fects.”  but  the  phonograph  has  not  been 
employed,  and  the  device  for  making 
it  synchronous  Is  Kdlsou’s. 

When  Luralcro’s  cinematograph  was  In¬ 
stalled  bore,  not.  long  after  the  exhibition 
»»f  the  Corbet t-Fltesluimons  light-  pie?* 
tures.  the  public  was  fairly . sinrtlod  by 
the  clearness  nnd  steadiness  of  the  viow*. 
1. uru loro’s  representative  was  anxious  to 
phologrn|)U  something  local  and  typical. 
11c  chose  a  parade  of  the  police, 'after 
having  rojoctod  u  football  scrimmage  ns 
unlikely  to  prove  high  in  "action.” 


EDISON  LAUGHS  AT  TRIUMPH 

^•v/iucca  by  Wizard.. 


...dy  development  pc 
Ivs."  to  reproduce  si 

•ullh  action.  .  .  • 

.  *’«  a  littlo  raw'  yet,”  -'laughed- the  . 

••but  you  just  givo^us.u  olio nw  ; 
|  working  these  things  yet^V  £:_,; 


IIAU'ITOU)  (CT)  TIMES 
January  (M,  1913 


Ij  AOQUALVfKO. 


id  invention  will  1 


.  . . 

;  .'f^tonograph 


Vbrib'graplv  *  »» 

>n  dlfforent  parts  oY  the  stage. . 


-  been  solved  by  tho  Invontlon  of;a  did-*, 
.Ictitt*^ recording  Instrument  that*  catch/ j 
foront  parts  of  tlio  stage-  Tho  record'-- 
•  ing  needlo  Is  moro  dcllcuto  tlm/i-.that: 

;  -words  of  tlio  player' without 


volco  vague. 

Mr.  unison  does  not  claim  that  ;hl$ 
apparatus  is  yet  beyond  tho  point,  of 

it  will  be  possiblo  to  glvo  tho ,  w^olcf 
•'  evening’s  entertainment  •  for  '.Mlvo 

I  has,/  undoubtedly .  mado  much^prog-j 
!  rcss  ln  solving  tho  problems'  pi'syn-j 
r  chronlsm  which  his  undcrtaicing 

j  '•  Tlip  tlmo  is  coming  when  •thM^wlI] 
v  bo  fu'w  communities  In  '  tho  JiUnltetf 
.  Statos  so  rurui  or  so  remote. as;. ta -b« 
^without , tho  Edison  U 1  ntdoph  one /.'And 
thisjwili  gradually  beconio  ,t'ruo:  of  thcl 
■'•’  Wholo  world..  -  j 

!  jfeopli^pC  ,aji^pittl<}ps  -  will  •  uUlhiateVyj 


CAMP  EM  (NY)  ADVANCE-JOURNAL 


(NAME  OF  PAPER  IS  HISSING)  (NAME  OF  PAPER  IS  HISSING)  HACOMD  (XL)  JOURNAL 

January  29,  1913  January  22,  1913  January  24,  1913 


IS  UN'S  FEAR 


RATHENAU  MEDAL-FOR  EDISON 


"Whin  I  In  |i|iim)u(I  ic 


'Sy'T  ,  Battery. 
Now'  York.'Ja'ir" 


DULUTH  (MN)  NEKS-  TRIBUNE 
January  24,  1913 
EDISON  BUSY  AND  wife 
ACCEPTS  MEDAL  FOK  HUH 


(NflUli!  OF  PAPER  IS  MISSINfP 
January  25,  1913 


TRAIN 


g.EVEI.AND  (Oil)  LEADER 
February  CM,  19.13 


PERTH  AMBOY  (til)  NEWS 
February  OG,  1913 


HSiLDORMS.; 
MILLION  OFFER 
FROM  6TH  CITY; 

! Olovi-laiid  itmraiici^p, gup.;- 
it alisf's  .Soak'  iiy;Viii'u  J 
Tu  I  Ivin  y  j'ict.ui'ii  .UTfiiits'i 


two/new,-  . :  j 

PERFECT  i 

Viobwi  Stmiijj-  nut.crx.* . ; 

Diamond  Tipped 

and  Imlestriiiitiblci’f.  i 

dials  Avis  Latest  iixven- 

lions  of  Wiziuvl.  | 

-••  •  '  *•••  An  .tncldental’<JcVt)<?)i«ration6t  tlm . 

i’tolUJns  I'ioturan*  by  IJSiUBon' hlniHclf  • 

Two  •  new  inventions p,by W | 
Thomas  A.  Edison,  both’ notable,  pending.  ,  ‘  V.'.V  . j 

mUlitions  to '  ■  tlio  .  scientific :  !cuntrSl "and :'op“roto“fie' talklnK j 
1  mihievemoni  of  thu  ' 

i.hat  they  bring  the  phonogrepld^^  taejo^  jUe,.  th0 j 

almost  to  pcrloetion,  woi‘.B.  given.;.^tJ,.,.|»i  wbloli  will  make  records  un- 1 
to  llm  world  for  the  first  hSr,^£^l^ihS‘ 

Monday  througli  a  .  Clir^qlinic^'wrri&fc.'aiMlcr  "tlio  .vlaudv;  .m- 
man.  Ho  is  P.  J.’  BrniJyV&t^  ;  ‘ 

'ney,  with  offices  at  622. CitfeolffijM  The  choralnt  throw •. nW  of  the 
building.  . /  X  Si.%  ,S  ifi  oyebrowa  , 

Brady  hml  Jurtt  returhed  xtroirH 'a  •  slightly  and  IuurIi  ’  ’ 

Visa  with  tho  Inventor  at  ;pjiy»br;  i  Sout? °  uSic ’’them' 


.RlllH  WOMAN  ^ 
AS  DETECTIVE 

IVlrs^E^^on  and  Mrs.  Cole-: 
gatb  After  Clean  Streets 

AVest.  Orange.  X.  J.,  Feb.  a— Mrs 
Thomas- A.  Edison.  wife  of  the  Inven¬ 
tor.,  and  Mrs.  Hassell  Colgate.  l>btb  of 
this;  city,  told  how  they  had  watched 
houses' In  town  for  Severn  I  days  Jit*  or- 
dpi*  to  make  up  nllatofthepen^imln 
|  the  habit  of  Uttering  the  atresia  with 
j  tin  cuiiH,  |K‘cllugH  nudv other  refuse. 

I  Ilot.M  are  onthuHluHiIc  reformerH.  •and' 

‘  they  asserted  they  had  thoroughly',  eu- 
•Joyetl  their  detective  work  In -tho  ‘civ 1c 

j  -  Ay hen  -they  went  tc'thn:'rrfipetlng  of 
j  the  West  Orange  eon udl'. titfroporvou 
i  their  tiTsk  they-  f ou nd> t  h  oufs  el  vei&l  tY . 

!  the  midst  of  ,ii*  dramatic  scene.-  /They 
,  cheered  IJr.  Biitnuel %A.r.M«tit.ii«.‘hi*;i^ 
.signed-  the  olllconf  ihnyor  liccmmd  !the . 
council  hud  voted  for  mi'otfiec  siilbo'n.  ; 

Mrs.  Colgate,  whose  family  1m 
wealthy  oud  prominent  In  society,  is 
head  of  the  committee-  that  trie*  to 
keep  the  streets  clean,  wlillo  Mrs.-  Edl 
son  Is  president  of  the  West  Orauge 
Town  Improvement  nnHuclntlon.  of 
which ;tho  committee  is  un  arm.  When 
the  town  scavenger  rcjwrted  he  conld 
not  tidy  the  streets  to  suit  the  stand 

cuuso  the  residents  would  uot  quit 
throwing  out  their  refuse  Indlserlinl- 
untcly.  Mrs.  Edison  and  Un.  Colgate 
began  their  detective  work..  I 

AVhllc  they  wcre^waltlug  to  be  heard 
the  council  wok  arguing  the  matter  of 
granting  another  sa loon  license.  When 


“I  resign!  I  .will  not  be  n  member  of 
such  ii  body!  I.  quit  us  muyor  of  this 

As  he  walked  down  the  nbde  and  out 
of  the  (mil  .Mrs  Edison  a  ml.  Mrs.' Col¬ 
gate  Jumped  up  and  applauded  him'. 
Their  example  was  followed  by  others 
OulsUle  Che  room  Dr.  Mutn  got  ashed 
of  copy  paper  from  a  reporter  and  oti 
It  wrote' out  Ids  resignation* as  mayor 
and- sent  It  Into  the  council.  Tin*  coun¬ 
cil  took  a  vote  and  rejected  the  real*  | 


J  33 


"MPJ.UOM  PICTURE" 

UAHDURSt  (CT)  MEWS  UOSTOM  (HA)  AUVER'IISEH 

Feb.  10,  1913  (U)  Feb.  7.0,  1913 _ W 


1JANGQR  (ME)  MEWS 
Feb.  19,  1913 


“TALKING 

PICTURES” 


Edison’s  Kinetoplione  Given 
•  Successful  Trial  in 
'  New  York. 


‘WIZARD”  EDISON 

COMING  TO  BOSTON 


EDISON  HIDES  FROM 
‘  TliEffl  AUDIEKCE 

"1  Wouldn’t  Gu  Out  on  the  Stage 
for  a  Million  Dollars,"  He 


ow  to  Live 

By  Allan  L. 


ci.evei.ani)  (on)  pi.fl.i-M  dealer 
March  02,  1913 


NISH  YORK  PRESS 
March  07,  1.9J.3 


A10  WORKMEN  BN 
MENTIONS 

Big  Toledo  Concern  Glad  to 
Help  in  Developing 
.  Meas. 

Results  £re  Evidenced  in  La¬ 
bor  paving  ^Machinery  I 
iii  Plant. 


A  majority  of  Uio  groat  invention!!  i 
wliloh  have  ilono  ao  much  for  tha  inl- 


Slontiie  Battery  Car 

Tested  by  N.  Y.  Central 

S"  r;i„r:,  tit 


POSTON  (HA)  JOURNAL 
March  OG,  1913 


DANKER  &  TRADESMEN  POSTON  (MA) 
March  01,  19X3 

A.  .nr,  the  . icultlmr  Hltonora-  ,o  more  I 


POSTON  (MA)  ADVERTISER 
March  OG,  19X3 


NEW  YORK  (Nit)  CALL 
March  07,  1913 


ANACONDA  (MT)  STANDARD 
March  21,  .1.9.13 


POSTON  (MA)  TOST 
March  31,  1913 


BOSTON  (MA)  ADVERTISER 
March  29,  1913 


BOSTOtl  (MA )  RECQUD 
March  29,  1913 


PHILADELPHIA  (PA)  IATIi 
March  29,  1913 


The  Perfect  Unison  liotwcci 
the  Motion  Picture  Machine 
and  Phonograph  Explained 


n-IE  COMING  OF  TI-IE  TALKING 
£  PICTURE  — 

THIS  INTERESTING  POSSim^ITIUS  01-'  EDISON'S  NEWLY 
ANNOUNCED  INVENTION,  THE]  KINETOP1IONE 

BY  ISAAC  l'J.  MAKCOSSON 


'T"MiE  scores  of  smartly  gowned  women,  j 
I  the  troops  of  children,  and  the  fair  j 
sprinkling  of  men  who  gathered  at.j 
he  Orange  Country  Club  one  afternoon  ) 
ate  in  January  scarcely  realized  the  his-. -1 
oric  importance  of  the  occasion  that  brought  ;A 
hem  together.  They  had  been  asked  to  be  I 
he  guests  of  their  neighbor,  Thomas !  A.  i? 
Edison,  at  a  demonstration  of  what  was  j! 
nodestly  called  “-an.  improvement  in  the  j* 
notion  picture.’*  To  mosC'of  them,’  thez 
eriu  “  motion  picture  ”  meant  the  ordinary^ 

‘  movie,”  with  its  silent  unfolding  of  the'/. 
Irama  of  life.  f 

Nor  was  there  any  outward  .evidence  of  '!, 
significant  departure  when,  the  lights  were  j 
urned  down,  llcfore  the  audience  stood  / 
the  familiar  screen,  and  behind  it,  on.  aiu. 
improvised  elevation,  the  nose  of  a  pro-, 
[ecling-machinc  poked  out.  *  But  if  '.any$. 
me  had  looked  up,  he  would  have  -seen.'j 
lwo  wires  running  along  the  ceiling  /  and> 
:oiinccting  the  picture-umchinc  with  the.jj 
>creen.  These  wires  had  an  important  partT 
in  the  day’s  disclosures.  4 

The  buzz  of  talk  continued’  even  after  j' 
the  machine  began  its  preliminary  sputter¬ 
ing.  A  conventional  drawing-room  interior,* 
containing  a  piano,  was  thrown .  on'  the, 
screen.  A  man  in  evening  clothes,  walked 
swiftly  down  toward. the  center  of , the  pic¬ 
tured  stage.  He  raised  his  Stands,  vaud 
then  tlic  miracle  happened,  lie  Trained1  hi^  j 
lips  to  speak,  and,  even  as  he  framed. them,’  • 
the  sound  of  his  voice  came.' forth.  \  . By  jf. 
watching  the  lips  carefully,  you  could  tell jn 
that  the  words  you  heard  were  -in ;  reality  H 
the  speech  he  was  uttering. :  ?v  There. was] j 
perfect  unison  between  sound  and  action.,  ••Ti. 
Then  he  introduced  a  girl, who  played || 


is  they  sea m pc re  i 


Other  demonstrations  followed.  Yui 
saw  and  heard  part  of  an  act  of  "  Tin 
Chimes  of  Normandy’’;  you  beheld  tin 
story  of  a  Dick  Turpin  spoken  ami  aclcii 
in  every  detail;  you  laughed  at  the  droller) 
of  a  politician  trying  to  make  a  speech  t« 
his  constituents  while  being  coached  fron 
behind;  you  heard  Verdi’s  “Miserere”;  ym 
got  the  opening  of  a  minstrel -show,  hones 
’  'nckface,  jokes,  and  all. 

When  J.liC'* display  dosed  with  the  ii.su a 
“grand  'finale  by  the  entire  company,’ 
which  included  the  singing  of  the  “Star 
Spangled  Banner,”  it  was  so  real,  so  vivid 
and  so  stirring  that  the  audience  rose  to  it: 
feet.  It  was  a  spontaneous  tribute  to  tin 


pgipm 


scientific  importance. 

V-  \yhat  had  happened  was  simply  hos¬ 
tile  talking  motion  picture  had  had  its  firs 
public  appearance.  By  a  curious  coi 
cidcucc,  the  audience  was  largely  compos 
of  the  friends  of  the  little  gray  wizard  w 
-had.  now  finally  realized  a  dream  of  ma 
years!  by  linking  two  marvels  of  his  geniu 
—the  phonograph  and  the  motion  picture 


■IKIISKY  CITY  (M.1)  .IOUI1MAI. 
April  01,  1913 


We'^eed  Those 
|  Captains  of V 
Industry  Who 
Are  Honest  ' 


onouRhCofl,  foM-omici  t— is’on  itatat  ifSSlffff  Whni'c  all  UoZXlc'r 
cio  with  lus  money?  Do  you  think  ho  is  as  h  ppy  as  I  am?  In  vested  in  industres 

*?£?*£?£$£  ch"si"H  *«*•*  »0  ** 

ss-gS 

*  “  k“ii 


“!i,cta„!ido 


to  codify: 


I  agree  with  President  Wilson  oi 
tins  principle  and  make  it  the  lai 

This  must  he  done  by  educatU.,.,  miguiiu  me  scnoois  at 
civs  papers  arc  doing  their  share,  but  our  schools  are  not.  There  is  too  'much  theory 
IMf S  A°n0niT,o0P»Tch  0,d  (8S!)ionc^  impractical  stuffy  Academic,  I  believe  they: 
h  i t.  Analyze  it  down  and I  education  js  keeping  a  lonc'jvay  behind^- the  timr- 

L2j&gE£*Zfi»<ss* 


nauon  on  earth  with 
A  powerful. navy  is  a  gi 
five  years— certainly  w.„„„ 

the  American  people  would  no _ „  „» 

reducingCtl!eaVneanCe  "hic}l  can  be  committed  w _ _ _ _ %  v 

quence  she  tenow^or  ^hc f^t;  ^•ndcr.t0([It  l°-  economize  in' her  navy.  .  As ‘a’ cons©- j 

l^^^ing^wUh^emi^rjinste^t^m^e1  upeby*?a^i^^^^opriaUon  ft^Tl^Srae^se' 

. . TIiat  the  United  States  .should  bo  at  peace  with  all  nations  and  should 'exert*’ 

its  great  influence  for  the  maintenance  c»f  the  world's  peaco  is  above  all  things- to  bc! 
esired,  but  the  primary,  condition  of  ot>r  peace  rests  upon  the  navy  of  the  X  ‘  * 

States.  While  we  have  n  powerful  navy  no  one  will  attack  -  *  • 

to  uso  our  influence  In  lhc  cooso  nf  „o«co  ncrywlicro. 


NI5W  YOIIK  (NY)  CAM. 
April  03,  19X3 


YOUNG  EDISON’S  BOMB 

I;  explodes  in  his  hand 


irf. 


MEW  YORK  (MY)  KVKNINi:  SUN 
Apri  l  01,  19.13 


NKWAHK  (111)  STAR 
Apr  i  l  07.,  1913 


PLAN  TO  HOLD 
BIG  LINER  FOR 
MORGAN’S  BODY 


Olympic  lay  Be  Detained  at 
Cherbourg  To-morrow  to 
Bring  Dead  Banker  Home. 

WORLD-v'vDf,  TnlSUTES 
RECEIVED  IN  ROME 


Condolences  From  European! 
Rulers— Memorials  to  Be  1 
Held  Here  in  His  Honor,  i 


EDISON  WANTS  VIEWS  OF 
PURLS  ON  Ills  “MOVIES’ 


SAVANNAH  (GA)  HEWS 
April  21,  1913  (D) 


MilloilBOVlIlc.  (in..  April  20.-Thomnn 
.A.:  ■  Edison  lias  mitdo  tlic  IstfnWS  of  j 
■martjFIninatca  of  the  state  penitentiary  ' 


it  to  GrlB6»,  chart;- 


C5i) 


■SAN  irUANCMSCO  CHRONICLE 


April  29,  1913 


Csct) 


S'' 'independent 


[May 


WASHINGTON  (D.  C.)  HERALD 


mm 

Emm 


nnn 


National  Organization,  Members 
Chosen  Country  Over  for  Char- 
aoter  and  Efficiency,  Visits  In- 
■  venter’s  Plant. — To  Leave 

’  Boston  on  World  Tour. 


• _ _ —EDITOR  AND  STATESMAN"*1— 

Representative  Bremner,  of  the  jSeventh  New  Jersey  District, 
whom  we  once  unjustly  suspected  of  reactionary  tendencies,  is’  a 
credit  not  only  to  his  party,  but  to  journalism. 

When  the  vice-president  of  the  Edison^  Phonographic  Works 


ALBANY  (NY)  PRESS- KN1CKER  ORANGE  (HJ;  CHRONICLE 
Hay  03,  1913  Pay  06,  1913 


NEW  YORK  AMERICAN 


nay  OG,  J.9U 


NEW  YORK  COMMERCIAL 
May  06 ,  1913 


DETROIT  (MI)  JOURNAL 


CLINTON  (Ift)  ADVERTISER 
May  09 i  1913 


OKLAHOMA  (OH)  OKLAHOMAN 
May  07,  1913 


MARTINEZ  (CA)  GAZETTE 
May  03,  1913 


BROOKLYN  (NY)  STANDARD-UNION 
May  13,  1913 


if) ) 


MEM  YORK  YORK  JOURNAL  OE  COMMERCE 
May  OG,  1913 


f  EDISOU  LOSES  PATEHT  CASE. 


NEWARK  (M3)  STAR 
May  05,  1913 


I  Edison  Loses  Suit 
He  Fought  Against 
Goulds  37  Years 


PITXSUUBC  (I’M  SUM 
riny  I?.,  J.9J.3 


INVENTIONS 

OF  TODAY 


MOOSE  TO  ENLIST  GILLETTE 


DBS  MOINES  (Ifl)  REGISTER 
May  12,  1913 


Friedmann  erred 

IN  KEEPING  SECRET] 


Aroused  Sus|i 
fcssion,  Sa,v 


don  of  Pi'o- 
5  Minister.'  ; 


">  |  '{I  .... 


RIVAL  LABOR.  ORGANIZATIONS/  .- 


i « \  Am* rlcan^Ved  era  llouf  o  i 
,.jr  organization 1 
n  Chriatlano’a 


Labor.*  A  meeting  imiU)?  the;ausplpea^] 


boston 

CHRIS.  SCIENCE 
MONITOR 
May  JS,  1913 


Miles  of  Motion  Piet 


S11AH0KXM  (PA)  III5RALU 


Manager  Quirk,  of  the'  G;  A.  R.  Opera 
House  Has  Booked  ;thf';FAtnous 
!  and  R^nouned  Talking  Motion 
j  Pictures  for  Saturday. 


Tho  fnmoua  Ediaou  talking  pio- 
turoa  are  Sbaiuokiu, 

This,  bus  baai&decidod  And  Ihoy. 
ivil!  G.  A.  K.  Opera 

House  commencing  Saturday  Juuo 
11.  mnttineo-  uud  night,  A  oum- 
plolo  ontertuiumont,  consisting  of 
Drumu,  Comedy,  Tragedy  .  Oper¬ 
atic  solootiona  and  apouoboB  ■  by 
.tvpll  kuowu;;.|iiun  and  women,  will 
be  enough  -to  convince  the  most, 
skeptical  that -at  last  tlie  Bilont 
motion  picture;  is  doomed  uud 
hurenfter  they  will,  talk  the  same 
ns  real  actors  on  a  roal  stage,- 
One  of  tho  most  RtupeudouB.* 
undertakings  in  the  “talkios”  weV 
the  staging  of  tho  big  minstrel- 
number,  comprising  thirty-five' 
people,  This  is  a  gonuino  min-1 
atrol  olio  with  blaok  facod  coined^, 
inns,  clog  dancers,  cake  walkers}; 
quartets  and  tiio  grand  fiualo  of. 
old  veterans  showing  tho  spirit  of 


city  oil  Now  York,  , uud  his  oabiuot 
a  group  of  putTragotltos;  tho  inisor 
auone  jfrom  the."  Chimes  of  Nor¬ 
mandy’.’  ;  a  olovor  skit  known  as 
the  “Musical  Blacksmitha”;  and 
“Nursery  Fuvoritoa”,  u  subject 
that  will/gladdon  the  hearts  of  all 
loversl  of  : child  life,  dealing  with 
“Jack  Uho-Giant  Killor”,  “Old 
lung!  Colo”,  “Tho:  Witch”. 
■■Tho.'Fairy”,  -‘Lilllo  Roll  Riding 
UoodV  and  all  tho  old  iuvorilua  bo. 
iluur  to  thu  ImartB  of  tho  young. 

Tiiia.iia  cousidorud  ouo  of  tho 
groattfati  iuvoutiona  of  tho  wizard 
Ediao'A  -oud  liasjiroatod  tlio  gront- 
ust  cixoitiimont'  ,  throughout  thu 

oounliy,;  They are  at  proaout  bo- 
iug  slibwn  ouly  iu  tho  largor  citiua 
whoro'fitlioy  .  'uro  ;  drawing  doily 
enpadjty.  biisitioBa  ill  tho  largu 
vuudduillo  thoatroa,  This  io  tlio 
lirat  t  imo  pilorod  to  tho  pnlilio  at 
largo  lauid.  thijoiti'/aiia  ot  Shoinokin 
will  u'.yait  with  inturoat  tho  opoiiiug 


Mansfield  Men  Lease  North 
Main  Street  Playhouse  i 
■  From  Doyle.  ,  j 

‘,\r,-irrIATRD  MOVIES’  I  1 
WILL  BE  PRODUCE!/- 

After  ,tho,  Popular  Theatre 
Undergoes  Thorough  j 

Overhauling  I 


SHAM0K1N  ( PA )  NEWS 


IB,  .1913 


New  Motor  Docs  Away  Rflith  the  Stringing  of  Wires  in  llic  Minos,  Tlioi-oby- 
Eliminating  Danger  of  Fire  and  Electrocutions— Batteries  Will  be  Charged! 
by  Night— Cars  Can  Run  Ton- Hours  and  Haul  Heavy  Trips 


SHAMOK1N  (PA)  HEttALl) 
June  10,  1913 


PHILADELPHIA  (PA)  RECORD 
June  21,  1913 


EDISON  TALKING  WCTURESd 

Thomas  A,  J'Miaun  prnspoil  nl 
„ i trill  wiiln  prublom  by  offering 
his  lutuat  in vuntiuii  tutho  liulioa  in 
mss  of  snll'rngo.  Nnxt  Sntur- 
Juim  14th,  unilinoo  unii 
night  at  tlm  (I.  A,  11.  rporn  hoiisu 
II  tnlkiiiK  pioturo,  ilovotud  to  In-; 
moua  Yvuniuii  of  tlio  ciuiso,  will  ho 
goon  nml  hutiril.  'L'lio  Ellison  talk¬ 
ing  plot  urea  will  bring  to  Shmiio- 
iiiu  tliu  rout  oioiucnt  of  ssnsnlion- 
nlism  in  speech  nml  nclion.  Each 
won' no  ilulivura  u  short  speech  in 
fnvor  of  suit rn no  mill  whothur  you 
uro  for  or  ngninsL  tho  iiiuvoiiiuul 
you  will  wont  to  hour  whnt  soinu 
of  I  ho  brightest  inimls  in  tho  work 
luivo  to  attjLouiAbwWtJSSJ^n 


PONTIAC  (Ml)  PRESS 

June  16/  1913 


(No  name  of  papec) 
June  13)  1913 


AUTO  MOTOR 


June/  1913 


1L,©M<G  RUH  .  OH  A] 
On  Wednesday- after  noon  of  last  week  there  arrived  in 
Fleet  Street  what  was  apparently  an  Arrol-Johnston  car, 
for  there  was  the.familiar  sloping  bonnet,  and  at  the  other 
end  of  the  car  there  was  further  evidence  in  the  shape  of 
the  overhead  worm- driven  ax'e.  The.  car,  however,  was 
one  of  the  new  Arrol-Johnston-Kdison  electric  cars,  and 
it  had  made  the  journey  south  from  the  new  Arrol- 
Johnstoii  headquarters  at  Dumfries,  thus  accomplishing  a 


morning,  the' Vehicle  being  driven  by  Mr.  M.  E.  Fox,  of  the 
Edison  Storage  Battery  Co.  The  weather  was  very  heavy, 
driving  wind  and  sleet  making  it  impossible  for  the  car 


running,  and  si  houi 
from  Manchester*  at  7  ? 
at  Burslem,  Stafford,  V 


was  made  at  S  a.m.  London  was  reached  about  midday 
and  the  run  concluded  at  the  Electrician  office  in  Fleet 
Street  at  1  pjn.  At  Manchester  the  car,  which  was  of 
the  coupe  variety,  was  weighed  and  was  found  to  weigh 


PHILADELPHIA  NORTH  AMERICAN 
■July,  19.13 


IIM.TCHHUUC;  (HA)  NEWS 
■July  12,  1913 


^TO  TESTIFY  AGAINST 


tiller  Mere'  I'ront  Many  States 
ami  Will  lli)  to  New 
'  York  Today 

SUITS  BROUGHT  BY  U.  S. 


wide  utolflem  lijTffliterliiB  lil»  latest  lu;  j 
volition  to'llio-ludles.  la  U»>  eauso  of, 
'sultriiKo,  Next  Woduesdny^nnd  Tlmvnj^ 

SulAo'u  tulKUtK'  picture,  devut«y(o| 
(famous  women  of  tbo  e;unu»,  wHJ  be 
Won  iiml  hoard.  Tlio  K«Umoii  talking 
'pictured  iWlll  brim;  to  WUuhbmK 
real  •  ‘  element  of  uenanthmallKMi 
speech  nml  action.  -  Wm’li  woman 
llvcraa  abort  Hpeueh  In  favor  ot  i 
finiKo*  and  wlictlmr  you  are  fur 

i'0B“Sr  VL'lSU-t ' 

minds  lu  tlic  work  liuvo  lo  my  cm  f 

""'iffittdleR  or  tile  niliwi  Willi  will  r 
leltafu.'yoii  uiid  Mrs!  .lumen  Wen  I  .Mil- 
law  of  Now  York.  one  ot  Hie  meat  uc-_ 
tlvo  lworl&rs.  In*  America.  a  eolteite 
Kradiiato,  a  society  Iciuler  nml  im  cuni- 
0Rt  lighter  uuulimt  tlm  white  iiluyo 
trallle.  Miss  Itllwibelli  Premium,  ulll- 
clitl  Biioulier  ol  the  remit  “hike"  trem 


years  it  inciabiir  ot  the  V.'immii's  See 
mail:  Political  Union  or  England.  Mi 
•Harriot  May.  Mills,  i.rosldont  ut  i 
rwoniun Sllttrngo  Party,  ot  Now  1c 
■jtjdo.  :Mrs,;-Mary.  Wefe  Uotinotl,  s 


.himiklor 


jifif  rc>>«« 

[qitiituVbf  til 

iyl't'tliqr" land*  entitle . speaker. 

I  >,Tfilsi*  Jibwcver .  Is  only  one 
(than  a'  score  of  -  tUffercut  sub 


| fered; l.y  tl|0 
ovcnUiK’s  ■eulertalumenl  \ 
comedy*,'  tragedy,  opora,  . 
gVnndl-isliirs train  the  dmniulle  In 
aswoU.ns  suvoral  lipadllnors  la  vaui 


CJ.NC1MMAT1  (Oil)  COM.  TIUDUNE 


July  13,  1913 


(iTil 


MARSHALL  (TX)  MI5SSIW.KU 

October  ?A,  1913 


"HIOHOGRflWl  -  GENERAL" 
CHARl.01.TE  (NC)  CHRONICLE 
November  J.O>  19X3  (U) 


"DATl'Hliy,  STORAGE" 

NEW  jtORK  AMERICAN 
November  JO,  .19.13 - (D) 


Mr,  hhTRainaq'yii  ho  la  going  to  Hlcop 
Bomn  at  night  In.llio  tuturo.  But  for 
hla  blamed  pbonograplia  tho  rest  of  u» 
might  have  tlio  aamo  prlvllego. 


Edison  Storage  Plant" 
Shut;  Orders  Lacking 

Inventor  Soon  to  Open  NejfC>Factory 
•.  for  Improved  Typo  of  Battery. 

•"of  tho  Killoon  Stornno  Dnttory  Works 


i^SIx^ptory  concrete^  bujldlntji^cc 
;\vlll  ,bo  complotcd  iu.n.fow  weeks. 
,whloh ,  a- now  typo*  of  battery  "davi: 
-by  Thomas  A.  Kdjaon  wlll  bo  mai 


"I’HONQGHAIMl  -  GKN1SKA!/1 
INDIANAIX)! ,1S  (IN)  HEWS 
November  07,  1913  (U) 


"I’UCNOGRAPH  -  GENERAL" 
TRENTON  (t-U)  TIMES 
November  20,  1913 _ (D) 


IFSirsd  TMrags 


Cml 


■EUISOH,  T-A-  -  PERSONAL" 

ULEVELAW7  (OH)  PRESS 
MOVKMUER  25,  I9j;i  (|j) 


NEW  YORK,  'LM  my, 
WovcBfcer  .1/1 ,  J.9J.3 


SHE’S  PROUD  TO 
BE  SOLE  WOMAN 
AIDING -EBJSON 


Hov  'BusinosR  is  to  Oolloo| 
Public  Opinion  on 
Wizard. 

NOW  AT  STATLEll  HOTEL 

lea  Maud  Ilson  is  Entlnisias- 
tio  Over  Ooneroto  ‘‘Pourod” 

.  .  Honso. 


jT.  A.  EDISON  FAVOftSr'^S'l 
:  •  ELECTRIC  BUSEsMl 

Fivo-Cont  Fare  Concorn  Quotos 
: ...  Invontor  in  Asking  for 
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EDISON  EMPLOYEES  HOLD 
.  LARGE  RECEPTION  AND  BALL 


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MERCHANTS  TRAUC  JOURNAL 
DES  HOINES  (1ft) 


"PHONOGRAPH  -  GENERAL" 

WftsuxNGrroM  (pc)  times 

Dec.  15,  3.913  (U) 


Edison  Phonograph  ,, 

In  New  Disc  Style, 


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December  OG ,  1913 

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AUT0MQD1LE  JOURMAI, 


NEW  EDISON  PLANT. 

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Concerning  New  Edison  Battery. 


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WIRELESS  TELEGRAPH 


"OUE  MILLING" 


NEWARK  (NJ)  INDEPENDENCE 
December  26.  19.1.3 _ Or) 


ELMIRA  (NY)  STAR-GAZETTE 
Dec.  19.  1913 _ (D) 


THE  DESERTED  VILLAGE. 
Effect  of  Edison’s  failure  on  Low 
Grade  Iron  Mines. 

The  village  of  Kdlson,  in  Sussex  etmnly. 
is  a  thin}*  of  tins  past  mid  itulliing  now  re¬ 
mains  hut  one  Imrn,  n  pile  of  lumber  Hint 
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the  huihlliitls.  I'or  two  years  a  wrecking 

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December  29#  1913 _ (b). 


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TAKE  A  IIP 
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the  Lackawanna  President 
While  Wireless  on  Train 
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Do  It  Electrically! 


r  ERBERT  SPENCER  says 
'  there  are  only  five  great  dates 
in  history.  Let  us  make  it 
seven  to- 

First,  the  year  Four  Hundred 
Fifty  B.  C.,  when  Athens  was 
at  her  height. 

Next,  the  year  One,  when 
Rome  bloomed  and  blossomed 
and  when  a  tragedy  was 
worked  out  in  a  Roman  prov¬ 
ince  that  is  still  influencing 
-  the  world  profoundly. 

Next  we  get  tire  year  Five  Hundred,  when 
Justinian  and  .Theodora  formulated  the  Jus¬ 
tinian  Code  to-  About  this  time  also,  another 
thing  happened,  to  wit :  Three  little  Teutonic 
tribes  on  the  Southern  shores  of  the  Baltic 
packed  up  all  their  earthly  effects,  being  sore 
pressed,  on  one  side  by  the  Romans  and  on 
the  other  by  the  Northmen,  and  sailed  around 
to  Brittany,  and  their  descendants  are  there 
yet — aiso  their  descendants  circle  the  globe, 
and  their  drum-taps  greet  the  rising  sun. 

The  next  great  date  was  Fourteen  Hundred 


Ninety-two,  when  Columbus  gave  the  world 
a  continent. 

Next  comes  that  unforgetable  year,  Seventeen 
Hundred  Seventy-six,  when  Thomas  Jefferson 
said,  “  Not  for  the  glory  of  God,  but  for  the 
benefit  of  man.” 

The  next  great  date  is  Eighteen  Hundred 
Seventy-six,  when  Thomas  A.  Edison,  Alex¬ 
ander  Graham  Bell  of  Boston,  Professor  Gray 
of  Oberlin,  and  Professor  Dolbear  of  Tufts, 
simultaneously  presented  the  world  the  tele¬ 
phone;  and  when  Thomas  A.  Edison  jnoved 
to  Menlo  Park  and  began-working'tffe  miracles 
that  resulted  in  the  incandescent  lamp,  the 
trolley-car,  the  storage-battery  and  the  dyna¬ 
mos  that  turn  the  countless  wheels  of  trade  so- 
Edison,  above  all  other  living  men,  through  his 
work,  issued  an  emancipation  proclamation 
that  has  given  us  time  to  think,  to  laugh,  to 
play,  to  enjoy,  to  read,  to  study  in  short,  to 
become  t>»  so- 

»  The  problem  of  getting  a  living  has  been 
solved,”  says  James  J.  Hill,  “  but  we  have 
yet  to  learn  how  wisely  to  make  use  of  our 
leisure  moments." 

As  Fourteen  Hundred  Ninety-two  was  the 
time  of  the  Great  Awakening— when  Colum- 


Sixty-sb 


THE  FRF1 


December 


bus  sailed;  Michelangelo  painted,  modeled, 
builded,  wrote;  when  Leonardo  lived  and 
could  do  more  tilings,  and  do  them  well,  than 
any  other  man  of  his  time,  or  perhaps  of  all 
time ;  when  Gutenberg’s  invention  of  movable 
type  was  sending  printed  leaflets  over  the 
round  world,  carrying  messages  of  good-will, 
wit  and  wisdom — so  will  the  year  Eighteen 
Hundred  Seventy-six  be  a  great  white  mile¬ 
stone  on  the  path  of  progress. 

The  path  of  progress  from  now  on  will  not 
be  a  thorn  road,  tortuous,  grievous,  stony  and 
dangerous,  but  a  great  highway,  paved  with 
brick,  twenty  feet  wide,  stretching  from  ocean 
to  ocean,  mudless,  dustless,  skidless,  over 
which  we  will  journey  in  joy  at  a  safe  and 
reasonable  speed. 

Let  the  next  great  date  in  history  be  the  year 
Nineteen  Hundred  Thirteen,  when  the  dream 
of  the  Lincoln  Highway  from  ocean  to  ocean 
will  cease  to  be  a  dream  and  begin  to  be  a 

Camp  Co-operation 

S  B  IRITE  on  the  tablets  of  your  memory  the 
W  dates  September  Third,  Fourth,  Fifth, 
Sixth,  Nineteen  Hundred  Thirteen,  when  at 
Camp  Co-operation,  Association  Island,  Lake 
Ontario,  the  Society  for  Electrical  Develop¬ 
ment  advanced  so  far  as  to  make  its  early 
realization  a  certainty. 

The  germ  of  the  idea,  however,  was  bom 
years  before,  in  the  seething,  restless  brain  of 
J.  Robert  Crouse,  but  on  September  Fourth 
and  Fifth  the  idea  passed  from  the  chrysalis 
stage  into  that  of  tangible,  living  life. 

This  meeting  at  Camp  Co-operation,  Associa¬ 
tion  Island,  was  in  many  respects  the  most 
unique  and  important  commercial  meeting 
held  in  this  country  in  many  years.  The  invi¬ 
tations  were  extended  to  the  guests,  in  behalf 
of  Association  Island  Corporation,  by  a 
committee  consisting  of  George  F.  Morrison 
and  Franklin  S.  Terry,  with  the  co-operation 
of  J.  Robert  Crouse,  acting  as  Manager  of  the 
meeting.  The  guests  consisted  of  the  presidents 
of  the  leading  electrical  associations — national, 
state  and  city — from  all  parts  of  the  United 
States  and  Canada,  together  with  the  most 
distinguished  leaders  in  the  financial  and 
electrical  world.  J.  B.  McCall  of  Philadelphia, 
President  of  the  National  Electric  Light 
Association,  acted  as  Chairman  of  the 
meeting  «•-  so. 

No  man  among  the  two  hundred  who  were 


present  on  that  occasion  will  ever  forget  the 
meeting  so.  so. 

There  were  six  notable  addresses — clear,  sharp, 
vivid,  crystalline  messages  by  world-makers. 
C.  These  men  were  Doctor  Charles  P.  Stein- 
metz,  Frank  A.  Vanderlip,  Samuel  Insull, 
Henry  L.  Doherty,  the  Honorable  F.  P.  Fish 
and  Doctor  Darlington. 

Years  ago  I  remember  talking  with  Mr. 
Edison,  and  in  the  course  of  our  conversation 
I  asked  him  if  he  knew  a  certain  person, 
naming  the  man,  who  just  then  was  much  in 
the  public  prints,  but  who  in  later  years  has 
succeeded  in  escaping  observation. 

“  Yes,”  said  Mr.  Edison,  “  I  know  him,  and 
he  is  a  good  fellow.  He  is  the  man  who  is 
always  just  about  to  do  something." 

The  six  men  I  have  named  above  are  not  only 
men  who  are  about  to  do  something,  but  they 
are  men  who  have  done  it. 

And,  curiously  enough,  what  these  men  just 
mentioned  have  already  accomplished  seems 
to  them  small  and  insignificant. 

In  the  course  of  three  days’  frolic  and  play 
and  laughter  and  earnest  discussion,  I  heard 
no  boast  from  the  lips  of  these  men  as  to 
what  they  had  done.  The  past  lay  behind. 
And  I  thought  of  the  saying,  “  When  what 
you  have  done  in  the  past  looms  large  to  you, 
you  have  not  done  much  today.” 

Doctor  Steinmetz 

DOCTOR  STEINMETZ  is  the  last  word 
in  electrical  development.  Physically  he 
is  sore  stricken  by  the  hand  of  unkind  Fate, 
but  when  you  meet  him  your  pity  very  soon 
runs  off  into  admiration,  as  you  catch  a  little 
of  his  enthusiasm,  his  hope,  his  bubbling  wit, 
his  courage,  his  noble  imagination.  For  what 
is  inventive  genius  save  love  with  seeing 
eyes?  so.  to. 

Steinmetz,  next  to  Edison^is  our  great 
modem  mechanical  prophet.  Steinmetz  seems 
possessed  of  faculties  beyond  the  average  man. 
He  has  an  intuitional  sense  that  is  almost 
uncanny  so-  so. 

His  "  boys  ”  may  work  on  an  electrical 
problem  for  a  year  or  more  and  fail  to  make 
it  tangible.  Steinmetz  will  then  sit  down  and 
look  at  the  machine  for  about  five  minutes, 
light  a  cigar,  blow  a  cloud  of  smoke  through 
it,  and  behold,  the  thing  starts  and  chaos 
becomes  cosmos  1 

The  subtlety  and  keenness  of  the  man’s 
power,  with  his  ability  to  talk  lucidly,  logic- 


December 


Y 

THEFRF1 


ally,  simply  and  sanely,  mark  him  as  one  of 
the  world-makers. 

When  Doctor  Eliot,  then  President  of  Harvard 
University,  conferred  the  degree  of  Master  of 
Arts  upon  Steinmetz,  he  did  it  with  the  words : 
“  I  confer  this  degree  upon  you  as  the  foremost 
electrical  engineer  of  the  United  States,  and, 
therefore,  of  the  world.” 

If  in  some  respects  he  has  gone  beyond  Edison, 
the  fact  must  not  be  forgotten  that  he  has 
built  on  the  master.  Edison  had  not  only  to 
discover  the  principles  of  electricity,  but  he 
had  to  manufacture  the  machines  to  control 
the  current. 

Well  did  Steinmetz  say  that  in  untamed 
Nature  electricity  is  the  most- useless  thing 
you  can  mention.  Without  the  genius  of  man 
it  is  purely  destructive  in  its  nature. 

Steinmetz  resents  being  called  an  inventor.  He 
says:  "I  am  only  an  engineer.  My  business 
is  to  construct  engines  that  will  transport  an 
elemental  form  of  energy  into  a  million 
factories  and  homes,  dividing  this  energy  up 
into  infinitesimal  parts  so  it  can  be  practically 
used  to  run  sewing-machines,  to  chum,  to 
wash  dishes  and  to  do  the  dead  lift  and 
drudgery  that  otherwise  would  have  to  be 
done  by  human  hands.” 

So  let  Steinmetz  stand  as  a  type  of  the  modem 
engineer,  who  not  only  is  an  engineer,  but  is 
an  artist,  an  economist,  a  teacher,  a  humanist. 

Frank  A.  Vanderlip 

IVjEXT  we  get  Frank  A.  Vanderlip,  Presi- 
l  w  dent  of  the  National  City  Bank  of  New 
York,  an  institution  with  deposits  of  four 
hundred  million  dollars,  that  has  twenty-five 
thousand  customers,  with  correspondents  in 
all  the  principal  cities  of  the  world  and  in  a 
thousand  cities  and  towns  in  America. 

Bom  on  a  farm  in  Illinois  in  semi-pioneer 
times,  brought  up  to  work  with  his  hands,  to 
help  his  mother  take  care  of  the  garden,  look 
after  livestock,  ran  errands,  make  himself 
useful,  Vanderlip  has  evolved  step  by  step 
until  he  is  the  most  influential  man,  perhaps, 
in  the  financial  world  in  America  today. 
Vanderlip  was  private  secretary  to  Lyman 
Gage — Secretary  of  the  Treasury— and  it  is 
no  discredit  to  Lyman  Gage  that  the  secretary 
is  a  bigger  man  than  his  chief. 

Vanderiip’s  address  at  Camp  Co-operation 
turned  on  the  necessity  of  properly  financing 
electrical  enterprises  that  would  be  needed  by 
the  people  during  the  next  five  years.  He 


emphasized,  in  this  connection,  the  great 
need  of  cultivating  the  popular  good-will  and 
appreciation  of  public  utilities,  electrical  enter¬ 
prises,  and  the  sound  present  and  future  place 
of  electricity  in  the  world’s  work. 

His  estimate  was  that  at  least  four  hundred 
million  dollars  each  year  of  new  capital  would 
be  required.  Where  this  money  would  come 
from,  and  how  it  could  be  secured,  was  the 
theme  e«» 

Vanderiip’s  hope  in  the  future  is  large.  He  is 
essentially  an  optimist. 

Most  bankers  are  brakemen.  They  fight  on 
the  defensive. 

Originality, '  initiative,  enterprise,  are  things 
beyond  their  scope.  Loans  have  to  be  pried 
out  of  them  with  a  financial  jimmy.  They  are 
usually  from  Joplin.  Sometimes  they  ask  not 
only  that  they  be  shown,  but  that  they  be 
supplied  comprehension.  Frank  A.  Vanderlip 
and  George  M.  Reynolds  are  types  of  the  new 
kind  of  banker,  men  with  prophetic  insight, 
great  faith  in  their  fellows,  love  of  kind,  and 
without  being  “  easy  marks  ”  they  recognize 
opportunity  and  point  the  way  to  it. 

It  was  good  to  see  that  a  man  can  be  a  great 
banker  and  still  be  a  human  being,  with  eyes, 
ears,  hands,  feet,  dimensions,  passions. 
Steinmetz  is  a  practical  joker,  and  no  man 
enjoyed  his  quips  and  quirks  and  Marshall 
Wilder  wheezes  more  than  Vanderlip. 
Vanderlip  has  faith  in  himself.  Yet  he  makes 
no  claim  to  infallibility.  He  is  a  learner,  a 
student,  a  thinker — a  kindly,  generous,  gentle 

l(  Samuel  Insull 

THE  'third  world-maker  was  Samuel  Insull, 
formerly  private  secretary  to  Edison ; 
also  hands  and  feet  and  eyes  and  ears  for 
Edison.  Ways  and  means  are  his  playthings. 
He  is  what  the  French  call  an  entrepreneur. 
CL  He  is  a  businessman,  an  economist,  an 
employer,  a  teacher,  and  his  principal  business 
just  now  is  to  educate  the  world  to  an  increased 
consumption  of  electric  power. 

Insult's  address  was  not  insulated  by  opacity. 
The  whole  thing  was  illumined,  and  without 
glare.  It  turned  on  the  necessity  of  educating 
the  world  to  the  fact  that  electricity  was  the 
cheapest  and  most  effective  form  of  energy, 
“  the  handmaiden  of  civilization.” 

One  of  the  most  impressive  things  that  Insull 
said  was :  “  Within  five  years  I  have  purchased 
at  a  fair  profit  to"  the  builders  thirty-nine 


THE  EKFf 


December 


Sixty-eight 


electric  Central  Stations  or  producing-plants. 

I  am  now  supplying  all,  of  the  customers  of 
these  plants  from  one  Central  Station.  The 
change  has  been  made  to  the  distinct  gain  of 
the  consumer,  in  that  the  cost  of  power  has 
been  reduced  on  the  average.” 

Mr.  Insull  also  called  attention  to  the  fact 
that  while  the  high  cost  of  living  prevailed 
in  all  commodities,  yet  electricity  and  electric 
equipment  and  appliances  have  steadily 
decreased  in  price. 

For  instance,  the  electric  lamps  that  are  now 
being  supplied  to  the  public  are  so  vastly 
increased  in  efficiency  that  the  public  can 
now  secure  practically  three  times  l  he  amount 
of  light,  for  the  same  consumption  of  energy, 
as  was  possible  three  or  four  years  ago.  Not 
only  this,  but  through  the  activities  of  the 
Research  Laboratories  of  this  country  and 
Europe  there  is  likely  to  be  available,  in  the 
comparatively  near  future,  lighting  equip¬ 
ment  in  the  way  of  incandescent  lamps  of  even 
higher  efficiency,  which  will  confer  tremendous 
benefits  on  the  public. 

The  Honorable  F.  P.  Fish 

THE  next  big  man  was  the  Honorable  F.  P. 

Fish  of  Boston,  perhaps  the  most  compe¬ 
tent  patent  attorney  in  the  United  States, 
and  the  best  authority  on  the  law  of  patents. 
Mr.  Fish’s  address  on  the  Principles  of 
Re-Sale  was  instructive,  interesting,  convin¬ 
cing,  and  revealed  a  grasp  of  economic  prob¬ 
lems  which  very  few  men  in  the  wide  world 
possess  so-  so- 

Doctor  Darlington 

ffVJEXT  there  was  an  address  by  Doctor 
la  Darlington,  for  many  years  a  member  of 
the  New  York  Board  of  Health,  on  the  subject 
of  factory  betterments. 

Doctor  Darlington  showed  a  large  number  of 
stereopticon  slides,  pictures  taken  by  himself, 
showing  what  big  business  had  done  and  was 
doing  for  the  workman ;  all  this  for  the  selfish 
reason  that  when  you  better  the  health  and 
increase  the  moral  and  intellectual  status  of  a 
worker,  you  get  an  increased  return  in  service. 
C.  Doctor  Darlington  showed  pictures  of 
school-gardens,  back-yards,  beautiful  homes, 
roadways,  happy  children,  modem  factory 
construction — illustrating  safety,  convenience, 
efficiency,  all  to  the  end  that  the  worker  might 
grow  and  evolve  into  a  better  worker  and  a 
better  man,  and  that  his  family  shall  have  not 
only  the  necessities  and  comforts,  but  a  ’good 


many  of  the  luxuries  of  life.  Call  it  Applied 
Christianity  if  you  wish. 

Doctor  Darlington  himself  rather  objected  to 
tire  use  of  the  expressions  “  uplift  ”  and 
“  welfare  work.”  He  called  it  enlightened  self- 
interest,  and  his  argument  was  that  altruism  is 
self-preservation — the  Golden  Rule  in  action. 
Some  of  the  Big  Boys 

SO  there  you  have  it :  Steinmetz  the  mechan¬ 
ical  technician ;  Vanderlip  the  financier ; 
Fish  the  legal  expert ;  Insull  the  entrepreneur ; 
Doherty  the  builder  of  cities ;  Darlington  the 
social  promoter  and  past  master  in  sanitary 
cience  1  so-  so- 

There  were  also  able  addresses  by  Senator 
Will  rd  Howland ;  J.  B.  McCall,  President 
Nat.onal  Electric-Light  Association;  A.  W. 
Beresford,  of  the  American  Institute  of  Elec¬ 
trical  Engineers ;  George  H.  Harris,  President 
American  Street-Railway  Association ;  Frank 
H.  Smith,  Vice-President  of  the  Electric- 
Vehicle  Association;  Anson  W.  Burcliard, 
Vice-President  of  the  General  Electric  Com¬ 
pany;  S.  O.  Richardson,  Junior,  President 
Association  Island  Corporation ;  Norman  Mac¬ 
beth  of  the  Illuminating  Engineers  Society ; 
Thomas  Debevoise  and  W.  E.  Robertson  of 
the  Electrical  Supply  Jobbers  Association; 
Ernest  McCleary  of  the  National  Electrical 
Contractors  Association. 

Then  there  were  some  goodly  oratorical  kilo¬ 
watts  by  F.  E.  Watts,  Jupiter  the  Jovian 
Order  so-  so- 

The  Honorable  John  H.  Roemer,  Chairman  of 
the  Railroad  Commission  of  Wisconsin,  gave 
an  especially  illuminating  address  on  the 
relation  of  the  State  to  Public  Utilities. 

In  the  past  it  has  been  the  habit  for  a  State 
Commissioner  to  view  a  public  utility  as  a 
sort  of  quasi-enemy  of  the  people.  Mr.  Roemer 
made  the  point  clear  that  the  interests  of  the 
public  utilities  and  the  people  were  identical, 
and  that  any  service  supplied  below  cost  and 
a  reasonable  profit  was  sure  to  be  a  disap¬ 
pointing  one. 

Mr.  Roemer  supplied  a  smile  by  saying  that 
while  he  was  nominally  in  “  the  enemies’ 
country  ’’  he  felt  very  much  at  home. 

Mr.  Roemer’s  able  speech  and  genial  presence 
added  much  to  the  success  of.  the  meeting  so- 
Henry  Ford  was  an  electrician  before  he  went 
into  the  Aladdin  business.  He  was  one  of 
Edison’s  boys— and  is  yet.  Edison  calls  Henry 
Ford  his  biggest  discovery.  His  heart  is  in 


THE  FRR 


everything  electric,  and  he  is  in  “  contact  ” 
with  this  new  and  splendid  work. 

Henry  L.  Doherty 

OENRY  L.  DOHERTY  is  President  of  the 
Society  for  Electrical  Development  <*» 
Doherty  is  an  inventor,  a  mechanician,  a 
financier,  a  builder  and  a  teacher. 

Very  seldom  do  you  find  a  man  who  is  success¬ 
ful  in  so  many  lines  or  human  endeavor.  The 
successful  man  is  usually  a  specialist,  and  his 
achievement  is  bought  with  a  price. 

Doherty  is  ballasted  with  brains.  He  is 
equipped  with  commonsense,  and  as  Stein- 
metz  put  it,  “  he  is  wired  for  service.” 

He  never  gets  mentally  short-circuited,  because 
his  humor  is  a  saving  fuse. 

Here  is  a  man  who  has  taken  numerous  bank¬ 
rupt  electric  concerns,  and  turned  on  the 
quick  current  or  prosperity.  He  is  the  most 
practical  man  on  the  electric  job.  He  thinks 
constructively.  His  life  is  an  affirmation.  He 
is  a  graduate,  and  a  post-graduate,  of  the 
Univeisity  of  Hard  Knocks.  He  has  grown  by 
elimination,  and  knows  everything  that  will 
not  work.  And  so  we  find  him  today  in  his 
early  forties,  a  success,  untainted  by  selfish¬ 
ness,  and  unspoiled  by  flattery. 

Doherty  thinks  logically ;  his  verb  fetches  up ; 
he  says  things.  As  an  orator  the  honey  of 
Hymettus  is  on  his  lips.  He  possesses  the 
graces  of  health,  good  nature,  broad  mentality, 
a  firm  grasp  on  the  facts,  and  a  high  apprecia¬ 
tion  of  the  eternal  fitness  of  things.  With  it 
all  he  has  a  becoming  modesty.  He  does  not 
shilly-shally  and  yet  he  is  never  cocksure  ft- 
Doherty  is  a  leader  of  men — and  naturally  he 
is  of  Milesian  ancestry. 

But  his  shillalah  has  transformed  itself  into  a 
flute.  Doherty  is  a  citizen  of  the  wide  world, 
and  he  will  leave  the  world  a  better  place  than 
he  found  it.  He  is  a  Themistocles,  who  can 
take  a  poverty-stricken  hamlet  and  make  of 
it  a  beautiful,  happy,  prosperous  city. 

Edison 

WHETHER  men  of  equal  prominence  and 
worth  in  the  electrical  world  were  ever 
brought  together  at  one  time  and  place  I  do 
not  know. 

Only  the  presence  of  one  man  was  required  to 
make  the  meeting  absolutely  complete.  That 
■  was  Mr.  Edison.  It  was  expected  that  he 
would  be  on  hand.  At  the  last  moment  it  was 
found  that  he  could  not  come.  The  letter  he 
wrote  to  Secretary  Morrison  was  reproduced 


by  photographic  process,  with  his  signature 
omitted,  and  Mr.  Edison  signed  the  two  hun¬ 
dred  fifty  letters  in  person. 

When  you  want  tilings  done  call  on  a  busy 
man.  The  other  kind  has  no  time. 

If  there  is  a  man  in  the  wide  world  whose 
moments  are  as  valuable  as  those  of  'Mr. 
Edison  I  can  not  name  him.  Nevertheless  he 
has  time  to  write  letters  with  his  own  hand. 
Here  is  the  letter  lie  wrote  to  Morrison : 

FROM  THE  LABORATORY  OF 
THOMAS  A.  EDISON* 

Orange,  N.  J.,  August  18,  1913. 

Morrison : 

My  wife  left  for  vacation  on  12tli.  She  said,  “  1 
suppose  when  I  am  gone  it  will  be  the  old  story, '  When 
the  Cat  is  away  the  mice  will — Work.’  ” 

She  mode  me  promise  to  join  her  on  the  25th,  so  1 

Regards  to  all  the  boys, 

Yours, 

THOS.  A.  EDISON. 
Next,  I  can  not  resist  the  temptation  to  give 
tlie  letter  written  to  me  by  his  secretary, 
Mr.  Meadowcroft : 

FROM  THE  LABORATORY  OF 
THOMAS  A.  EDISON 

Orange,  N.  J.,  August  23,  1913. 

Dear  Mr.  Hubbard : 

Just  a  line  to  let  you  know  that  Mr.  Edison  finished 
signing  the  letters  this  morning  and  that  I  sent  them 
to  you  by  express  this  noon. 

Mr.  Edison  had  been  working  all  night  through. 
Left  for  bieakfast  7.40  this  morning  and  returned  at 
8.30,  and  has  been  working  hard  all  day.  He  leaves 
for  Maine  tomorrow  morning. 

With  kind  regards, 

Yours  sincerely, 

WM.  H.  MEADOWCROFT. 
Talk  about  the  eight-hour  law!  Note  how 
Mr.  Meadowcroft  speaks  of  Edison  working 
all  night,  going  to  breakfast  at  seven-forty, 
getting  back  at  eight-thirty. 

For  distribution  at  the  meeting  I  prepared  a 
special  sketch  of  the  life  of  Mr.  Edison.  After 
the  manuscript  was  complete  we  had  some 
misgivings  about  printing  without  the  consent  . 
of  the  chief. 

A  copy  was  therefore  sent  to  him  with  some 
trepidatiw.  I  reproduce  the  letter  that  was 
received  from  Mr.  Meadowcroft,  with  return 
of  the  manuscript : 

West  Orange,  N.  J.,  August  9,  1913. 
Dear  Mr.  Hubbard: 

Mr.  Edison  has  looked  your  manuscript  over  as 
per  your  request,  and  I  return  it  to  you  herewith. 

Mr.  Edison  says  that  the  work  appeals  to  him  ns 
being  both  picturesque  and  poetic. 


Seventy 


THE  FRH 


December 


He  wishes  me  to  thank  you  for  telling  him  a  few 
facts  about  himself  concerning  which  he  was  hereto¬ 
fore  totally  unaware. 

There  seems  to  be  no  objection  to  your  printing 
tire  matter  as  proposed. 

Sincerely  yours, 

WM.  H.  MEADOWCROFT.  Secretary. 
Mr.  Edison  is  very  much  in  sympathy  with 
the  plans  of  the  Society  for  Electrical  Develop¬ 
ment  so-  so- 

Society  for  Electrical  Development 
UST  here  it  occurs  to  me  that  some  one 
may  ask  what  the  object  of  this  Society  is. 

C,  Its  intent  is  implied  in  its  name.  Its  pur¬ 
pose  is  to  increase  the  consumption  of  the 
electric  current,  and  therefore  add  to  the 
well-being  of  the  public  and  the  business 
interests  of  all  the  members. 

The  members  are  firms  and  companies,  not 
merely  individuals. 

The  Jovian  Society  represents  a  membership 
of  individuals  who  are  interested  in  the  busi¬ 
ness  of  producing  the  current,  selling  it,  or 
manufacturing,  selling  or  dealing  in  electrical 
appliances  so-  so- 

The  object  of  the  Jovian  Society  is  largely 
social.  It  gets  men  together  who  are  in  the 
same  line  of  business.  They  go  to  school  to 
each  other — to  use  the  phrase  of  Professor 
Edward  J.  Ward  of  the  University  of  Wis¬ 
consin — and  men  who  meet  together,  sing 
together,  laugh  and  eat  together  do  not  go 
away  and  defame  one  another. 

Animation,  good-cheer,  enthusiasm,  are  all 
very  tangible  assets  in  business. 

The  Jovians  now  have  a  membership  of  over 
twelve  thousand,  and  include  practically  all 
of  the  big  boys  in  the  business,  from  Edison, 
Steinmetz,  Insull,  down. 

The  Society  for  Electrical  Development  aims 
to  secure  the  entire  co-operation  of  the  great 
electrical  business— co-operation  being  repre¬ 
sented  by  the  firms  and  corporations,  as 
contrasted  with  the  individual  co-operation 
for  good-fellowship  and  fraternity,  as  repre¬ 
sented  in  the  Jovian  Order. 

“  Do  It  Electrically,”  is  the  slogan  of  the 
Society  o*  so- 

Less  than  thirty  per  cent  of  the  population  in 
America  are  served  electrically.  And  yet  in  the 
face  of  advancing  prices  in  every  other  line, 
electricity  and  electrical  appliances  have 
steadily,  surely  decreased. 

The  gross  sales  of  the  electric  current  and 
electric  appliances  for  the  year  Nineteen 


Hundred  Twelve  were  close  upon  a  thousand 
million  dollars,  and  this  does  not  include  the 
matter  of  telephone  tolls,  which  of  themselves 
figure  a  sum  total  of  .bout  two  hundred  fifty 
million  dollars,  or  a  little  more  than  the  total 
receipts  of  the  Post-Office  Department. 

The  expense  in  selling  the  current  and  the 
appliances  required  in  using,  it  average  more 
than  ten  per  cent,  or,  say,  a  hundred  million 
dollars  a  year.  Much  of  the  expense  incurred 
by  electrical  men  in  marketing  their  wares  is 
on  account  of  the  effort  to  secure  business 
which  some  rival  already  has ;  that  is  to  say, 
central  plants  and  manufacturers,  dealers 
and  contractors  are  bidding  against  one 
another.  And  in  many  instances  there  is  a 
competition  which  is  wasteful. 

If  the  money  expended  in  trying  to  get  busi¬ 
ness  away  from  one  another  were  used  wisely 
to  secure  new  business,  it  would  be  a  great 
advantage  to  the  electric  world  and  to  the 
public  at  large.  And  this  is  one  betterment 
that  the  Society  proposes  to  bring  about  so- 
No  society  was  ever  formed  in  any  line  of 
business  on  a  more  generous,  liberal  and 
unselfish  basis.  It  is,  “  All  together  all  of  the 
time,  for  everything  Electrical.” 

The  question  is  not,  Shall  a  producer  of  the 
current,  or  a  manufacturer  and  dealer  in 
electrical  appliances,  join  this  Society,  but, 
Can  he' afford  not  to? 

This  is  exactly  what  the  Society  for  Electrical 
Development  is  doing,  only  it  proposes,  if 
possible,  to  do  it  better  than  the  Steel  men 
have  done,  and  in  fact  they  should  do  it 
better,  because  they  have  the  example  of 
these  strong  men  before  them.  They  can 
avoid  the  mistakes  of  the  past,  utilizing  the 
betterments  so  so 

In  short,  the  Society  for  Electrical  Develop¬ 
ment  is  simply  a  great  scheme  for  education, 
not  only  the  education  of  the  public  at  large, 
but  the  education  of  every  man  who  is  in  the 
business  of  producing  the  current  or  harness¬ 
ing  it  and  supplying  it  for  the  use  of  man  so 
It  is  universally  considered  that  the  bringing 
together  of  men.  in  the  same  line  of  human 
endeavor  is  a  very  great  advantage  and  bene¬ 
fit. 'It  educates,  gives  courage,  widens  the 
view,  and  expands  business  interests  for  the 
good  of  everybody.  The  best  example  of  this 
is  in  the  Steel  industry.  The  consumption  or 
steel  per  capita  in  dollars  is  today  double 
what  it  was  fifteen  years  ago. 


Unbound  Clippings  Series 
Clippings  (1914) 

These  clippings  cover  the  year  1914.  Most  of  the  items  are  taken  from 
newspapers,  but  there  are  several  longer  magazine  articles  as  well.  Included 
are  articles  pertaining  to  Edison's  kinetophone  (talking  motion  pictures);  his 
new  dictation-related  inventions,  the  transophone  and  the  telescribe;  and  his 
rapid  production  of  carbolic  acid  (phenol)  at  Silver  Lake,  New  Jersey,  to 
compensate  for  supplies  cut  off  by  the  war.  Also  included  are  clippings  about 
Edison’s  vacation  in  Florida  with  Henry  Ford  and  John  Burroughs;  his  opinions 
about  the  deleterious  effect  of  cigarettes,  which  were  vigorously  contested  by 
Percival  S.  Hill  of  the  American  Tobacco  Co.;  the  wedding  of  his  daughter 
Madeleine  to  John  Eyre  Sloane;  and  his  comments  on  the  role  of  German 
Jews  in  the  outbreak  of  the  war.  A  few  clippings  refer  to  the  fire  of  December 
9  that  destroyed  much  of  the  West  Orange  manufacturing  works. 

In  addition,  there  are  articles  about  the  dissolution  of  the  Mexican 
National  Phonograph  Co.  and  the  long  dormant  Edison  Phonograph  Co. 
Other  clippings  report  the  deaths  of  Glenmont  gardener  Michael  Doyle, 
longtime  Edison  associates  Richard  N.  Dyer  and  Francis  W.  Jones,  and  rival 
electric  light  inventor  Joseph  Swan.  There  are  also  clippings  about  the 
accidental  deaths  of  employees  William  F.  Benedict  and  Henry  K.  Fass,  as 
well  as  former  associate  William  McMahon,  whose  body  was  found  floating 
in  the  Hudson  River. 

Approximately  50  percent  of  the  clippings  have  been  selected.  In 
addition  to  numerous  duplicate  versions  of  most  of  the  stories,  the  unselected 
items  include  articles  about  the  health  effects  of  tobacco;  a  new  anti¬ 
tuberculosis  film;  and  the  promotion  of  the  Diamond  Disc  phonograph. 

Additional  clippings  about  the  wedding  of  Madeleine  Edison  can  be 
found  in  Cat.  44,450  in  the  Scrapbook  Series.  Most  of  the  news  stories  about 
the  fire  of  December  1914  can  be  found  in  Cat.  44,509  and  Cat.  44,510  in  the 
Scrapbook  Series. 


"EDISON,  T.fl.  -  PEHSCMnL" 

NEW  YORK  EVENING  MIMS  NEW  YOUK  IIEUALD 

January  07.,  19.14  (|j)  January  02,  .19.1/1  ( |j) 


'John  C.  Jacobson  Loses  Hut- 
;j  ton  Park  House  and  Large  • 
•  •  'Collection  of  Antiques. 


DEMONSTRATES  THE  EDISON 

J.  W.  Scott  Shows  Wlmt  Phonograph  Can 
mid  Pleases  New  Londoners 


"rmi'lUN  PXCLUKE-  K1HE‘.LX)1'II0ME" 


PllJI.APKI.l’ilJA  (PA)  PUU1.1C  LEDGER 
Joiiuncy  13,  J.9.1/1 _ (») 


JOY’S  AND  SORROWS 
V  OF  THE  KINETOPHOTJE 


Some  of  llio  Possibilities  oLllio  Won¬ 
derful  Instrument  Which  Ellison  Ex¬ 
pects  to  I’oricct  in  Two  Years.' 


"PUOHUGUAPII  -  GEMERftL" 

COLUMBUS  (Oil)  CITIZEH  MLW  HTO  KKVjJM 

January  20,  I91d  (U)  January  2d,  1914 _ (U) 


l;6rbes=KoDertson 
|j  Soliloquizes  for 
.  Hie  Phonograph 

1  —  .  KV: 

•Titled;  Actor  Does  Scenes  [from 
i-  ^Hamlet"  at  Request  of 
[  ,<‘1;,  j  Mr.  Edison.  j’  ■ 


"PHONOCHAIMI  -  UialF.llAI," 


music  THAUES  (My) 
February  XU,  J.9J/I 


TI10S.  A.  EDISON’S  CAUE 


Hmiie  C'miliim  in  ClioimiiiK  Itusin  hir  1!' 
in  ScIccliiiK  Dromond  . . . 


IfEEOLT  (MJ.)  HEWS 
Feb.  19,  .1.91/1  (U) 


"PHOHUGRAMI  -  USF." 

KEY  HBST  (FI.)  CITIZEN 
Feb.  LI),  J9.l'l _ (U) 


MENA  (AK)  STAR 
Feb.  19,  JL9J.4  (») 


Smith  of  Bellevue 

Gheer  Maker  for  Sick 


II  TALKING  iCIlI 
10  BE  DEMONSTRATED 


Stratton  ill 


■or  *jiouiiil-reiiroiliic!iiii 


lows  ill  Uollovuo.  If  Ellison  \ 
sun  Frank  W.  Smith  uf 
«  pushing  II  ,\vhcc)linrrow 
..  phonoBraijli 


t . .  the  | 

VI  ask  perhaps  what  Smith 
g.  Horn’s  the  answer: 

1 1 1 is  phonograph, 
iting  sick  folks  ! 
and  ho  always 


in  llellevue  for  years 
■  •  talking 


Sickness  in  any  faniily.is  a  suro  slgnj 
Hint  Smith  will  road  It  in  the  impel  j 
and  bo  on  his  Apy  with  his  phono- 1 


5RS0NAL' 


SDISON, 


SEA'ri'LE  (WA) 


WESTERN  MOTOR  CAR 


PIlll.AUBU'HJA  (L‘A)  TBUSCHAM 

rtaccll  31,  I9J/1  (») 


"I’HOMOCTAIMI  -  GEMERAI.” 


liOSTUM  (HA)  AMERICAN 
noccli  23,  L9.M  (U) 


m3 


"ED1S0M,  T-A.  -  PEIiSQMAI," 
DIUUGEPORT  (CX‘)  STANDARD 
March  23,  J.9M  (U) 

EDISON  SAYS  RESTING  IN 
''  ■'  SOUTH  has  tired  him 


But  lie  Has  Obtained  Unique  $ct 
cf  Photographic  Records.. of 
Bird  Songs. 


"EDISON,  T.A.  -  PERSONAL" 
ANSONIA  (CT)  SENTINEL 
March  07,  1914  (U) 


VACATION  MU  A II  N.S  llDISON.-v. 


"ELECTRIC  LIGHT  -  GENERAL" 
ELECTRICAL  REVIEW  CHICAGO  (11.) 
Marcli  21,  1914  (D) 


"PIIONOGRAl’ll  -  GEMF.imi." 


uuuama  (on)  Tincs-cmmi 


UHOOKI.XN  (MY)  OTOgj  SALIM  (HA)  MEWS 

March  29,  -L9J/1  (U)  March  24,  1914  (»)  March  25,  1914  (U) 


EDISON  AND  “FIDDLERS.” 


MrtCHINES'RECORb  I 

,  THE  SONGS  OF  BIRDS| 


VIOLINISTS  UNMASKEb’.;1... 


who  Imo  'au'  lii 


laical  Instrument,  from  tbo  obop.to'tW 
.neollnu  iinrp,  was  discussing. tbo, grout 
•violinists  of  (ho  present  age,  .JIo  epokp 


•wltbMeop  feollng.  ...  _ 

'  "I  haro  to  admit,"  ho  declared  eijdl.y; 
•vtbat  for  a  long  tlrno  those  fellowp'biMj 
mo  completely  bewildered.  Tuscd’to 
:  watch  them  In  ninnzomunt.  Evory'tl'iUo 
•ono  of  them  shot  a  finger  bnlfwtty 
•down  the  nock,  of  his  Addlo  and  stod* 
Jipcd  It  In  exactly  tho  right  place.- for 
I  tho  sounding  nolo  I  gasped  In  astonish*, 
{•monk,  Every, t|iuc,  it  Bccmcd,  bo  could 
stop 'that  Anger  correctly  wltjtln  onp* 
'•thousandth  of  an  Inch.  Tlmt's  wbnt  ho 
|  had  to  do  In  order  to  uiaUo  tbo  right 
;nbte,.:.Aud  1  concluded  that  ho  add  his 
•jfeHpwa  wero  In  some  way  superior 'to 
I'jOll  other  kinds  of  pcoplo  in  the  niattor: 
l.of  judging  distances.  .  *  «  •' 

"But  I  know  hotter  now.  After  long 


U$ey  guess  at  It.  Then  Just  ns.tho’ note 
is  begun  by  tho  scraping  of  tbo  how 
their  trained  cars  cntch  tho  defect,  iuid; 
they,  readjust  their  Angers.* ;  Conse** 
qiicntly.  although  the  public  doesn’t. 
[  kiiow  it.  the  great,  violin  geniuses  of 
tho  world  fill  their  work,  with -a.  lot  of 
I  notes  that  start  falsely."— Popular  Mag* 


purrsnuitG  Q>a)  press 
March  .13,  1914 _ (») 


MUSJC  THAI  JUS  (MY) 

March  14,  1914 _ (I0)_ 


o.  i 


\  The  Famous  Inventor,  Who 
Has  Lived  for  120 
Years  by|\Vorking  Double, 
Time1,  Declares  That  the 
Great  Invention  for  Which 
••  ,Mankind:  Is  Waiting 
Is  a  Right  System  of 

Trarmjqg-  the  Y oung  to^g 
Understand  Life.  v 


“Th4.Great  Majority  of  f 
Labor  Under  a 
Burdeil'  of  Maleduqation,” 
“Pjliper  Training  of  the 
Brain  Must  Be  Accomplished 
Bepeen  Ages  of  4  and  16.” 
“The  Child  Must  Be  Made 
;  ^  to.lLpv  e  His  Schooling — Be*’; 
Eager  to  Go,  Loath  toLeave.”^’ 


-  *'1- Jua  t .. t|gf  §, The.  wo.ipJfl-at^^a^/mao.'wltiS 
1*0  evolved.  frpixyth^HiM||pS  social,  economical  und  phyn- 
leal  elements  Renutltlonti  of  hlatory  are^?: 

elementally,  progressions.,;  Tlio  shoot  of  nf'nr<£t 


idnj'aqd  J  put  litem  tQ  Work}.  and 
:  ~jt!  f  hundreds*.  .TUoIr  heads’;-:!  hji 


tknow  wijat  electricity T«*.^c  magnetism.,  •Jr^4Cuuanil  ) 
Zjdpor  element^  oC’our  puylr.qnmciilj, .,'t i. .foSlfci  ri.:‘ 
ur.^Tlte  uchlov VP^ntJ  fq& tiia  ivPI9rica3rrtp}biw(?^?^t'^ 
•7b?yand  Irjjagindtio’nV? ^ud  ye t;Jb  cf^r  oho  Is  ablffttCirlllzo'j 


HOTIOW  PICTURE  -  BRONX  STUDIO 


-  imuNx  ir  ims 

MEW  yORK  GLOBE  -  Ho  cell  20/  19.1/1  (U) 


FIRE  DESTROYS'' 
I  THE  BATTLE  OF 


I  Also  $300,000  Edison  Moving! 
Picture  Studio  in  the  Bronx 
Is  Badly  Damaged  in  Early' 
Morning  Blaze. 

FIREMEN  ARE  INJURED  ; 

BY  FLYING  GLASS! 

The  Scenery,  Costumes,  '  and; 
Properties  Used  by  the  Com¬ 
pany  in  the  Manufacture  of 
Film  Plays  Are  Total  Loss. 

Oliver 


M15W  BRITAIN  (Cl1)  RECORD 
March  20,  I9J/I _ 03) 


the  Humes  when  the  throe  si 
,iUB- wfts^.Uoatroyeil.  Several  men  ami 
women.. employed  by  tho  compnny 
risked  their  lives  In  suvin^?! 00.000 


•  —  vy-vv . .  V  C  Ap L  '  >  ,C''^  ^ 

Mr.  Francis  W.  Jones ,  Electrical 

Engineer,  Dies  of  Pneumonia 


Inventor  of  Dynamo  System:OsSd  in  Telegraphy  Passes  Away 
at  His  Winter  Home. invest  Palm  Beach,  Ha.— 

Was  Sixty, -Six  Years  Old. 


THOMAS  A  EDISON'S! 

WINTER  HOME  IN  FLORIDA  DE¬ 
SCRIBED  IN  LETTER  FROM 


|  Fort  Myers  Is  situated  on'tlie  left 
•  bank  of  the  Caloosahatchee  river  about , 
I  twenty  mllc3  from  the  Gulf  of  Mex*  i 
1  Ico.  Us  population  Is  nearly  3,000. 1 
Several  business  blocks  and  numerous 
[hotels  for  the  accommodation  of  tour* 
Msts  adorn  the  city.  There  is  one  mng-| 
ainceut  bank  building  being  erected,, 
vhlch  would  do  honor  to  a  much  lar-j 
ger  city.  It  is  constructed  of  *cut ; 
stone  shipped  from  Indiana'.;  It.ls  lire-! 


•EIJISON,  T.fl.  -  OH  CIGAKEIU'ES" 


IHUMGFXELU  (HA)  MOR.  UHIOH 


CONTRADICTS  EDISON 
ABOUT  THE  CIGAItET 

President  Hill  of  American 
Tobacco  Company  Writes 
Answer  to  Inventor. 


Hay  19,  1914 


JO) 

Hay  U,  19J/1  (lx 
BALTIMORE  SUM  (HD) 

’  "TOSM BAN^ 


CIGARETTES" 


,  1914 _ (U) 


MEW  YORK  COMMERCIAL 
May  18,  1914 

“U1GARETTES  .HEALTHY”,  , 
P.  S.  HILL  ANSWERS  EDISON 

PRESIDENT  OF  AMERICAN  TOBACCO 
CO.  GIVES  MEDICAL  PROOF;  ; 


"WEST  ORANGE  -  I  .Ml  -  GENEKftl. 


IJOSTOH  CHRIS-  SCIENCE  HOMITOU 
May  27,  J.9.M _ (») 


NEWARK  (NJ)  NIKS 
May  29,  1914  (U) 


THOMAS  A, 'EDISON 
HAS  HIS  F/VCTORIES 
RUNNING  AT  FULL 

Speaking  , on  Business  Situation  He 
•  Says, He  Can  Find  No  Irnmc- 
i  diat^:  Cause  for  Depression 


'SELECT  DATE  FOR  ANNUAL 

EDISON  FIELD  DAY  MEET 


tho  sluice.  J  nm  convjncnl  Hint  it 
not  lie  long  'uofore  nil  the  tnu 
in  New  York  city  Will  l)c  electric.” 


STATIC 


The  Wizard  of  the  Glass  House 


—  floT/ct.. - 

LoCld 

sfco /fc&AA/tiAj  s<r>i f/dkie^- 
/b/U ' 

feL  &UUL- 


f  lioTHirIG  LIKE  W  / 
&W/T  ^5?/)^  »  / / 

^-L  A  fBkHOv/i  AlWAYi'  / 


"nauuEwr" 

■'EDISON,  T-A. ,  INC.-  CEHEHAL- 

DAXONNE  (MJ)  REVIEW  NEWARK  (NJ)  MEWS 

June  0<l,  1914  (»)  June  04,  19M  (D) 


EDISON  EXPERT 
MEETS  HORRIBLE 
DEATH  AT  WORK 


WHIRLED  TO  DEATH 
IN  EDISON  PLANT 

William  F.  Benedict,  Repairing  Lac¬ 
ing  of  Belt  with  Machinery  Run- , 
C  iiing,  Mortally  Injured. 


RIBS,  LEGS  AND  ARM  FRACTURED 


to  F.ord 
Cigarat  Habit 
Model  (or  Pupils 


“I'lIOMOGRAl’H  -  GEHERAt," 

REMARK  (MJ)  STAR 
June  13,  191/1  (D) 


Mr.  Etdison  Stamps  as  “ Plausible, 
Theory  of  Mysterious  Falsetto  Tone 


Musician  of  Newark’ Also  Discovers,  as  Scientist  Attests,  the 
Proper  Distinction  Between  Voice  Tones  and  Pitch  and 
Deeply  Interests  the  Wizard,  Whom  World  Acclaims. 


"EUISON/  T.fl.  -  PERSONAL" 
July  23.  19M  (Ij) 


■SSTD  EDISON  WffS|W 
HIM  $200,000  HERE 

Slot')'  of  MeJIulioii,  Whoso  Body 
.  \V«fi  Found  In  Xorfcli' 'V 


c®ro»or  V.^llurh*  of  Jersey  city 


"OKE  MILLING" 

July  07,  1914  (D) 


TH0S.-A.  EDISON  TRANSFERS 
TIMBER  LAND  TO  ZINC  CO. 


"nwiot'i  mcoiuk  -  c;i^nsi»vt." 
Juty_n3.  1914 _  (») 


Sues  Thomas  A.  Edison 
Ovd-  Movies  Of  Her  Cat 


The  greater  the  man  the  greater  his  ventures,  the  greater 
hiss, achievements,  and  the  greater  his  MISTAKES 
,  me.  THOS.  aSdISON,  .h.8»U...=nMr«»d SSjSSSiSfte  to.  . 

0  He  made  a  statement  to  the ome  tw enty  different  brands  which  he  has  analyzed. 

^PTh^'pro^^^f^'’®ont^^J®‘^J|“^l^lb^ethe,mostlrelS?le  chemicttl^aiitho^W^Sc^dSg' 

b»s  n,.d.  ».  W  P“f 

C  However,  I  do  not  think  that  the  gOMndcJa  and  indubitable  manner  the  purity  of  the 

manufacturer  from  the  duly  t°  ^ular brand  of  cigarettes  are  wrapped.  1  th^each 

KS“mon’®U.»  b,  k  »to 

ffl  We  all  appreciate  the  fact  that  Mr. : Edison  li im  a  /I  j  him  {or  the  most  useful  service  he  has 

EUEV,!ME.BD,so^InM. 

If“TSKmi?™atTsu™ct' m Sat  bkanch  op  sc.ence  belongs  to 


JT  Jill  flan  Rj'  A  —  L/ 

ysssasi 

am  now. that  the  paper  in i  which  PHILIP  ingredients.’  But  I  did  not  want  .,  base  my 

and  the  purest  paper  made  andfreefrom  any  po  f  deem  it  sufficient  to  refer  to  i/ay.  reports 

rssis^ 


M  CIGAUET’J.'ES*1 


Pm'SUUHG  (PA)  LEftUF.lt 


July  09,  1914 


q  Mv  share  of  the  task,  as  stated  above,  being  to  defend  the  PHILIP  MORRIS  CIGAKETTES  in 
p,\ pttp.TTT.A'R  it  was  necessarv  for  me  to  present  to  the  public  the  results  of  a  SPECIAL  investiga¬ 
tion  and  a  chemical  analysis  proving  the  purity  of  the  PARTICULAR  brand  of  paper  in  which  PHILIP 
MORRIS  CIGARETTES  are  wrapped. 

<3  T  could  not  very  well  hurry  with  the  work.  It  required  time  to  gather  the  necessary  information 
from  both  the  manufacturers  of  the  PHILIP  MORRIS  CIGARETTES  and  the  manufacturer  of  the 
PAPER  used  for  wrapping  the  PHILIP  MORRIS  CIGARETTES,  and  subject  this  paper  to  a  chemical 

0  This  analysis  alone  took  about  two  weeks.  It  was  made  in  the  most  complete  and  careful  manner 

WOUND  IN  THE' PAPER  IN  WHICH  PHILIP  MORRIS  CIGARETTES  ARE  WRAPPED. 

<;  The  following  is  a  fac-simile  of  the  text  of  the  said  certificate,  the  original  of  which  is  in  my  possession, 
and  can  be  seen  by  any  one,  upon  request: 

Analysis  No.  377S3. 

Junes  Zobion  Company, 

,  .  '225.  Fifth  A vo.  , * 

Hot  Yotic  City.  ' 


,  Beforrlng  to  tho  oomplo  of  paper  marked 
"Philip  Korrlo  CiGorotte"  submitted  to  ub  for 
onolyoio  wo  hovo  to  report  that  wo  ore  unable  to  • 
find  ony  poisonouo  incrodlentD  therein. 

3IG1T3D  V 

q  I  always  keep  myself  informed  with  the  sales  of  my  clients — 

1. — MR.  EDISON’S  STATEMENT  APPEARED  IN  THE  NEWSPAPERS  ON 

2. — ON  MONDAY,  MAY  18TH,  MORE  PHILIP  MORRIS  CIGARETTES  WERE 

SOLD  THAN  ON  ANY  OTHER  DAY  IN  THE  LAST  SIX  TY  YEARS— 

3. — THE  BUSINESS  ON  PHILIP  MORRIS  CIGARETTES  FOR  THE  MONTH 

OF  MAY  WAS  LARGER  THAN  THAT  OF  ANY  PREVIOUS  MON  TH  01' 

TI-IE  LAST  SIXTY  YEARS— 

4  —WHILE  THE  MONTH  OF  .JUNE  BROKE  THE  RECORD,  WITH  A  CON¬ 
SIDERABLE  INCREASE  OVER  THE  MONTH  OF  MAY. 
q  This  remarkable  increase  in  the  sales  of  PHILIP  MORRIS  CIGARETTES,  following  Mr.  Edison  o 
attack,  may  have  been  a  coincidence,  but  it  may  also  be  due  to  the  public  tendency  to  take  special 
precautions,  in  such  circumstances,  by  giving  preference  to  the  product  which  is  the  BLb  i  iLN  U  WJN , 
the  LONGEST  K  MOWN  and  the  MOST  WIDELY  KNOWN  m  its  field.  , 

9:  The  .nablic.  knows  that  the  LONGER  a  product  enjoys  FAVORABLE  PUBLIC  OPINION  and 

^.TOieeo  e^mh.iits.QTIALIIL  .  i  •  V 

^  J^e,pW'J-As  •«  .'.n'uws  today  that  the  PHILIP  MORRIS  CIGARETTE  fc  f2r:4  CifLARETTE 
which  has'ienjoyed  the  most  favorable  opinion  and  continuous  patronage1  of-the  iLCr"1. critical  smokers 
throughout  the  world,  for  unquestionably  THE  LONGEST  period  of  time  in  the  Jstory  of  high- 
grade  Turkish  Cigarettes. 

<5  Although  Mr.  Edison's  unjustified  attack  involved  only  the  PAPER — and  not  the  tobacco— of 
ckarettes,  !  believe,  however,  that  MR.  EDISON,  AS  A  CIGAR  SMOKER,  PIPE  LOVER,  TO¬ 
BACCO  CHEWER  and  cigarette  hater,  will  be  particularly  interested  in  the  following  extract  from 
a  report  issued  by  the  London  "Lancet,”  the  greatest  medical  authority  in  the  world: 


“It  was  .found  that  the  CIGARETTE,  whether  Egyptian,  Turkish,  or  American,  gelded 
the  LEAST 'AMOUNT  of  its  total  nicotine  to  the  smoke  formed ;  THE  PIPE 
YIELDED  A  VERY  LARGE  PROPORTION  {in  some  cases  70  to  00  per  cent.)  ,  of 
its  nicotine  to  the  smoke  reaching  the  mouth  of  the  consumer;  and  the  analysis  of  cigar 
smoke  gave  figures  midway  between  the  two.  From  the  point  of  view  of  nicotine  poison- 
ina.  therefore,  assuming  that  equal  amounts  of  tobacco  are  smoked,  THE  CIGARETTE 
WOULD  APPEAR  TO  BE  THE  LEAST  HARMFUL  FORM  OF  SMOKING, 
and  the  pipe  the  worst,  the  cigar  occupying  an  intermediate  position  ill  this  respect,  judg¬ 
ing  from  the  amount  of  nicotine  contained  in  the  smoke  therefrom." 

JAMES  ZOBIAN,  Advertising  Agent, 

225  Fifth  Avenue,  New  Yorf£ 


EjHSOM,  T.A.,  INC-  -  GEMERftr." 
(WW  I) 


NEWARK  (Mvl )  STAU 

AuauBt  .1.9,  .19.1/1  (u) 


NEWARK  (MJ)  CAM. 

AuiiuoU  10.  191/1  (U) 


EDISON  FACTORY ; 
REDUCES  FORCE 


many  orange. industries 

HURT  DY  EUROPEAN  WAR, 

Tho  Factories  Are  N‘!"  G<* 


Cu) 


THE  MANHATTAN 

Press  CiippingBureau 

ARTHUR  CASSOT,  Proprietor 

CAMIIKIIMI?  IIU1I.I1INO 

Cor.  5th  Ave.  and  33rd  St.,  N.  Y. 


EDISON  DISCOVERS 
;  SECRET  OF  CARBOLIC 

Srteceerts  in  Making  Acid  Better 
and  Cheaper  Than  Im¬ 
ported  Article. 


SOLVING  PROBLEM  OF  DYES 


"I'llOMUGUAPIl  -  GGNtlWU." 

SftM  TOftMCTSCX)  (Cfl)  UULLEC1M  TOEMXUM  (HJ)  GAZETTE 

September  24,  IW  (L>)  September  29,  191A _ (U)_ 


tlNTQOE  EDIS01P" 
SHOP  IS  OPENED 


UIOSULUUUN  »r  tOISON 
COMPANIES  TAKES  PLACE 


AKLMXjWM  (PA)  IJ5A1JKK 
Sc^Lenjber  2?.,  1.91/1 _ (IJ) 

YEAGER  FURNITUHE^N 


Supplemented  by  Demonstration-  of  Ed- 1 
/  Ison  Diamond  Disc  Plionograpli  : 


'PHONOGRAPH  -  GENERAL" 


TALKING  MACHINE  WORLD  (NX) 


TORONTO  (SU)  HERALD 


October  IS,  1914  (U) 


Thursday,  October  23,  1914  (D) 


ATTRACTIVE  EDISON  HXIIIBIT 

At  the  Domestic  Science  and  Pure  Food  Show 
at  the  Mechanics  Building,  Boston — Much 
Interest  Shown  In  Lectures  and  Demonstra¬ 
tions  of  Edison  Disc — Other  Exhibitors. 


on  the  stage, 

c  individual  exhibits  are  Ocorge 
)i  the  Colonial  building;  Chick  - 
of  lli‘J  Tremont  street ;  the  Shepard 
m  Winter  street ;  the  Shepard  stores 


f  tlie  inost-talked-of  displays 
of  tlie  show,  cost  in  the  neighborhood  of  $10,000. 

In  the  parcel  post  exhibit  the  Eastern  'dik¬ 
ing ‘Machine  Co.  makes  an  interesting  showing  by 
way  of  illustrating  the  difference  between  the  o  i 
way  of  sending  ^ooi\s  and  the  new  one  through 
the  medium  of  the  parcel  post.  A  card  board  box 
shows  the  damages  sustained  in  sending  records 
improperly  shipped  nml  another  box  shows  the 
modern  method  of  packing  for  shipment.  In  the 
one  case  tlie  records  arc  scratched  and  otherwise 
damaged,  Imt  under  tile  more  up-1,, -dole  method 
there  is  not  Hie  slightest  damage  whatever  .amt 
tlie  goods  arc  received  !>v  tile  purchaser  m  perfect 


,  improving  the 

I- ,  Talking  Machine 

Out  of  the  Inigo  number  of  inven- 
tioiut pertaining  to  talking  machines, 
Lhere'hns  appeared  in  tlie  Patent  Of- 
lice  a  .simple  clarifying,  articuluting, 
amplifying attachment  for  these  ma- 
chinos;  which  M.  B.  Claussett.  the 
inventor,:  says  was 'disco  veredby  tlie 
accidental  touching  of  u  tine  needle 
with  ’the  finger  while  n  record  was 
being,  played.  Mr.  Clnunscn  in  his 
statement  for  tlie  benefit  of  the 
Scientific 'American  said  that ‘'he 
immediately  conceived  tlie  idea  that 
if  heipould  add  power  to  the  vibra¬ 
tion  of ‘this  fine  needle  it  would  re¬ 
produce  all  ' there  was  ill  the  record 
•  with  volume  equal  to  that  of  a  heavy 
nccdld,  without  any  of  the  heavy 
ncedkds  effects  such  as  scratch  and 
undertone. "  By  means  of  a  disk  at¬ 
tached.,  to  tlie  needle  near  its  point 
the  desired  volume  was  obtained,; 
and  tones  never  heard  before  were 
brought  forth."  It  is  declared  that 
as',  a  result,  “the  singer  or  musician, 
was, in  (.lie  ruuni,  not  in  the  box.  \  It 
reproduced  all  tlie  artist  put  into  tlie 
record  dn  tlie  artist's  nuturul  voice 


telephone  and  tlie  talking  machine 
were!  .very  imperfect,  inusmuch  ns 
the  enunciation  wns  not  us  plum 
and  distinct  us  the  human  voice  in 
its  ordinary  use.  This  has  been  em¬ 
phasized  in  tlie  place  of  the  "talking 
movies."  The  discovery  of  Mr. 
Ciaussen  may  revolutionizo  the  re¬ 
production  of  talking  machine  re¬ 
cords,  and  pave  tlie  way  to  more 
perfect-  results  in  I,  lephonic  com- 


SCIENTIFIC  AMERICAN  (MX) 

October  03,  1911  (D) 


A  Numbcrof  Kdls.oilJKnlcnls.— ' Tluiimis  A. 
Uilisou  has  secured  pnUmts  No.  1,01)0,241, 
for  n  rectifier.  No.  1,011!), Hill  for  an  im¬ 
proved  mounting  uf  llm  stylus  ur  n  plnimi- 
gnipli  reproducer,  atul  No.  1  ,«K«I,347  for  n 
similnr  invention;  No.  1,01111,11-18  involving 

ing  weight  unsocial, „l  tliomwith,  nml  No. 
1,000,040  for  it  metluid  of  nuking  sound 


iUFFALOVl 
'TO  BESfi 

sving  Pictures  to  be 
at  the  Panama-  ] 
Exposition. 

ILL  BOOMTH 

ir  Visitors  Will  See 
falo  is  a  Big  Indu 

lMOUS  operatc 


Diamond  Disc  Phonograph 
Can  Be  Seen  and  Heard 


[  OCTotJGiS  IZjWj 


1EDIS0H  visits  old 

CHUM  OF  BOYHOOD, 

!  I0W  MTO  BUILW 


IHe  and  W.  C.  Anderson 
Were  Friends  in  Port 
Huron. 

inspection  .or  factors 
mvelation  to  inventor 

Will  Make  Trip  Today  OyerRail- 


ClS  1 


"HM'Uxawni  -  UHHBW*" 


Msiimimi  (t’fl)  iirai.’iiT 
Hwcwbor  10,  _J»2. 


■IX 'HI. H ITU  ((HIT)  .'ri'Alt 
I  lovciM  UC»  J.9.I/I  _ (W 


EMU  DIAMOND1 
PHONOGRAPH/ 
i  ;  ■  GUNCEKT 

WIU  »K  CUV  KM  IH  H.  B.  01’  A. 

'  jiALit  by'jiuwami  i.  ; 

JAM  KS.  ’.;••• 


THOMAS  EDISON  SEND SHA:  ;.i 
,  .  OUT  BRITISH  RECORDS 

TuSmOGRARII  WIZARD  RUSHES  55  RAT- 
;V:  RI0T1C  SRl.l'.CTlO^IS  ,Tj|AG4!NADA.  i ; 

'  ^liliNTEi)'  THROUGH  THE  K^^jLLj^Sr&^OMS  CO.,  UI).-; 


National?' Military  Hand;  tSonia  •« t 
•'"  •  ".'■.'^aUouar  -'  MIlltnry  Hand; 
— '  Korevor,  ’  ICulcItarbauktic 
liunrtot'  njvd  .National  Military .Bund; 
'*  \OuradtoJry  Intf  Glllfttloiar\d..'Mix6d 

-•'Oruii ; Our  Truojuv  National  Mill-, 

tarj-f  BaKd ;  VPfuHnluKSUoylew^jPatrol; 

I  r-<lwj.rii;!;i*llfo*  ••nnd*V(x)ruin 

C (i i  ji:c ;  ••  H'T.Iini'.u'ul'  .,Mu:  rluvr -Y^.  -H 
N  "onU  fMl  It.-iry  Hand  Ur  jm-utiU 
Mxuy»j»rNp.‘'^ 'Hatlo  »n  1  /’MU  i  Utry 
!  J  tn  ltd j#  ‘■Hayal  Aum  t  ml  I  utt  ftNatf 
MiiVOh,.-Npw-  .York  Military  {Bnndi 
’ll  u  I  o  v,  BrJ  tanni  a,'.VU  ji  ml.  AlberlJ^Fart 


f.'“UnlKluin  Ns 
k:'  Military  yku 


"PHOHUGKftPII  -  GEMERftl 


Manufactures  His  Own  Carbolic 
Acid  When  Imported  Supply 
Is  Stopped. 

WALTER  P.  PHILLIPS 

RECOUNTS  INCIDENTS 

Contributes  Article  On '.Edison' As 
He  Finds  Him  As,  Personal 


u  — ';o'0?»LD 


\ 


Man  Who  Bossed  the  Wiz¬ 
ard  While  He  Played 

^  Newsboy  Is  Here.  . 


TOIMEEDMi 
IS  BORS  BFEEfiOED] 

Twice  In  Little  Ohio  Village- 
Of  Milan  He  Has  Dis-;  ',] 

.  appointed  Them.  •  '.j 


GALA  DAY  PREPARED;/ 
FOR  HIM  OCTOBER '28 


ccivo  und  nntorlalu  him.  }lrn.  Nancy 
Wild  a  worth,  a  Urnt  cousin.  who, -with 
her  daughter.  Jllna  Mnml  Wndaworlhj 
homestead  looking  spick  and  spatu^l 
'Tom’s’  Coming." 

Wadsworth  told  licr  neigh bora,.. .'.'and 


*le:want  him 


EDISON  IN  WAR  TIME; 

'  By  A  Staff  Correspondent 

rf-Aa  ■  -Hi  n>.  ftl*  -  lla-uJ  4 -o<tle>-  - ■— — — 


~cr 


EDITORIAL  NOTE— We  do  not  publish  this  story  thing  permanent  at  stake.”  The  master-genius  who 

telTga'&ra. tssrwS  ar £  ss  vsrstrjMs. 


7"ES,  I'm  interested,”  he  said,  turn- 
%/  ing  from  his  desk  in  his  revolving 
1  chair  and  looking  me  steadily  in 
JL  the  face.  “I’ve  got  a  daughter 
over  there,  married  to  a  German  major, 

I  think  he’s  a  major— some  kind  of  an 
officer,  anyway.  They  were  safe  when  I 
last  heard  of  them  a  few  days  ago. 

He  threw  back  his  superb  head  and 
laughed  heartily,  the  laugh  of  one  who 
does  not  understand  danger  for  others 
any  more  than  for  himself..  He  spoke  of 
the  incident  as  one  of  ^J^ht^peak^of 

clam-flat  Tt’chb" tide.  Then  he  suddenly 
whirled  about  to  his  desk  again,  grasped. 
*  a  handful  of  memoranda  scrawled  in  lead 
t  pencil  on  yellow  paper,  and. .thrust  it 


seemed  the  idle,  tiring  play  of  boys,  essentials  in  Its  manufacture.  For  really 
Beside^  his  victories,  those  of  Hannibal  I  do  not  know  what  P“  “  ^ys'  “ 
and  Napoleon  seemed  instant.  ^ 


•pDISON  looked  his  part,  every  inch  a 
■*-'  war-time  warrior  and  no  lay  figure  on 
dress  parade— unshaven, disheveled.dusty, 
bis  bltfe  serge  suit  bagging  about  him  and 
wrinkled  like  seersucker,  his  white  hair 


of  it  that  Edison  >  ranks  as  the  largest 
consumer  of  carbolic  acid  in  this  country. 
He  gets  away,  month  in  and  month  or- 
with  approximately  a  * - ** 


“SPHERE’S  the  r 
A  “the  only  war 


*  “the  only  war  in  which  humanity 
anything  permanent  at  stake..  Get 
,  NTi niri-’q  intrenchmcnts  and  make 


was  ulikempt  and  his  face  pallid  He 
looked’ as  though  he  had  not  slept  for  a 
week.!  When  he  shook  hands  with  me, 
his  hand  was  cold  as  a  fish,  though  it  was 
a  roasting  day  in  mid-August.  But  under 
their  heavy  lids  his  blue  eyes  shone  and 
sparkled.  All  the  blood  in  his  body  was 
in  his  brain:  he  was  thinking,  thinking, 
thinMnp,  ceaselessly  "{jj 

..I:,-.-.’ 

For  a  crucial  battle  was  on,  an  unex¬ 
pected,  sudden  encounter  that  threatened 
the  life  of  one  of  h J? j^f^n St he” inv c ntor 
;  forget  Edison  the  manufacturer; 


jn  and  a  half  of 


many,  where  it  is  derived  directly  from 
coal  and  shipped  in  crystals  done  up  in 
metal  drum£.  Carbolic  acid  is  distinctly 
one  of  the  things  about  which  we  are  hear¬ 
ing  so  much  blue  talk  nowadays,  that 
"  can't  be  made  in  this  country.”  Our 
coal  has  all’ been  tested,  Mr.  Meadow- 
croft  tells  ni'e,  and  appears  to  be  deficient 
in  the  elements  that  produce  it.  So  we 
have  been"  importing  our  supply  from 
"abroadr  a*  do  with  many  other  heavy, 

chemicals. 


of  assemblers,  putting  together 
run  nirk  nn  nuickest  and  cheap- 


TTDISON,  ihen,  had  been  getting  in  enor- 
i-*  mous  supplies  of  English  carbolic  acid 
to  feed  the  maw  of  his  ravenous  record 
factory,  when  suddenly  the  war  broke  out 
different  industrial  companies  w.«.  and  the  English  Government  dapped  on 
nt  mnnv  places.  About  his  own  an  embargo,  leaving  him  high  and  dry. 
^  «  \"4ro7=nge  arc  clustered  There  was  no  longer  a  handful  o  carbolic 
nse  factories  where  he  makes  storage  acid  to  be  had  from  abroad  for  flo\c  or 
.  money.  I  hey  need  it  a 


in  America,  incorporaicu  in  mu.e  than  a 
dozen  different  industrial  companies 
factories  at 


batteries  with  which  he  is  revolutionizing  money.  They  need  it  all  over 


■\  to  find  them.  k-ountiess!- 
■■  head  is  buzzing  with  them.  m  wajw 
;  his  hands  aloft  with  fingers  spread.  It 
3  has  been  too  easy  for  us  to  import  our 
J  materials.  This  European  war  came  along 
5  to  put  us  to  it  and  teach  us  to  depend 
1  on  ourselves.  I’m  learning  how.  I  ve 
I  been  as  bad  as  the  rest  of  American 
3  manufacturers— maybe  not  quite  as  bad, 
but  bad  enough.  I’m  learning,  though, 
learning  fast.” 

Again  he  threw  back  his  huge  white 
head  and  laughed,  but  this  time  with  the 
sheer  joy  of  battle.  Suddenly  I  realized 
the  truth  of  what  he  said.  The  real  war — 
no  mere  sport  of  princelings,  but  human¬ 
ity's  strife  for  progress  and  welfare,  the 

here.  I  was  at  the  front.  This  room, 
piled  high  with  books  and  apparatus,  was 
the  world’s  military  hcadnuarters  in  the 
only. war  worth  waging,  and  before  me  sat 
the  world’s  acknowledged  leader,  the  de¬ 
termined  and  unconquerable  genius  who  . 
so  often  had  pressed  Nature  s  obstinate  I 
resistance  from  stronghold  to  stronghold,  i 
and  finally  to  unconditional  surrender. 

1  Compared  with  the  campaign  he  had 
J  waged  those  of  Cicsar  and  Frederick 


films  for  moving  pictures;  pnonograpns 
and  phonograph  records,  these  last  being 
of  a  new  and  highly  improved  kind.  And 
it  was  the  Edison  disk  phonograph 
record  that  was  threatened  by  the  stop¬ 
page  of  European  imports. 


COME  time  ago  Edison  undertook  the 
O  perfection  ofthe  phonograph.  One  of 

elimination  of  th®“rfi“  sound  or  scrape! 

232  bGyr  TTif  rntwcrT  £ 

made  of  a  matcnal  smoother  than  Hass 

as*  stcel^Ito  f  tvlthstand*16 the 'wear1  of  *  the 
reproducing  needle),  and  get  the  overtones 

'V  He  invented* such™  composition,  proved 


the  manufacture  of  explosives:  not  be¬ 
lieving,  as  many  of  us  in  America  do,  that 
one  phonograph  record  is  worth  more 
than  all  the  war  materials  manufactured 
since  the  first  ounce  of  handmade  gun¬ 
powder  blew  the  monk  Schwarz’s  pestle 
through  the  ceiling.  ,  _  „ 

What  was  be  to  do?  The  first  thing, 
obviously,  might  have  been  to  give 
out  a  desponding  interview  to  the  news¬ 
papers  all  about  the  “paralysis  of  Ameri¬ 
can  industry/*  and  bow  he  would  be  forced 
to  shut  down  and  throw  me" 
ployment,  and  what  hard  ti 


going  to  have  t hi?  winter,  ana  as  muu> 
more  to  the  same  effect  as  he  could  think 
of — you  probably  know  the  line  pretty 


But  Thomas  A.  somehow  isn’t  built 
that  way.  That  kind  of  talk  is  foreign  to 
him.  He  is  a  first-class  fighting  man.  He 
has  the  notion  that  a  leaders  business 
is  to  lead.  If  a  man  is  an  acknowledged 
captain  of  industry  Edison  thinks  there 
is  something  up  to  him  besides  taking 

Brofits,  lobbying,  and  keeping  the  white 
ag  handy.  The  old  fine  conception  of 
noblesse  oblige  isn’t  dead  yet,  not  with 

Well!  then,  since  our  coal  wouldn’t  do 


MANUFACTURERS  OF  AMERICA 


WE  WANT  to  print  more  articles 
like  this,  as  much  better  as 
you  will  allow  us  information 
to  make  them.  We  want  to  record  more 
achievements  like  this,  done  in  the 
splendid  spirit  of  ’76.  We  want  to  hold 
up  to  admiration  and  encouragement 
the  wonderful  examples  of  resourceful¬ 
ness  and  enterprise  that  are  sure  to 
emerge  from  this  unexampled  situation, 
so  fraught  with  marvelous  possibilities 
for  American  industry. 


We  don’t  want  your  trade  secrets. 
This  article  itself  shows  how  far  we  are 
content  to  waive  our  ordinary  standards 
of  reporting.  We  want  to  bulletin  the 
progress  of  industry  under  these  extra¬ 
ordinary  conditions,  and  are  satisfied 
with  the  basic  facts.  If  we  can  show 
what  our  commercial  strategists  are 
actually  accomplishing  under  war-time 
stress  we  will  be  ourselves  making  an  un¬ 
precedented  approach  toward  this  mag¬ 
azine’s  idea  of  helpfulness  and  service. 


"EU1S0M,  'J'.A-,  1MC-—  GENERAL" 
NEWARK  (NJ)  CALL 
Decenber  29,  19.1.4  (U) 

ORANGE  READY 
TO  AID  EDW 

;ity  Officials  Uroo  /Measures,  to' 
i  b.afeuuard  Inventor’s  Plant 
In  the  Future  ..  ’ 

13Y  BETTER  WATER  SUPPLY 


"  ELECTRIC  LIGHT  -  GENERAL" 


KOC11ESTER  (N¥)  TIMES 
December  01/  1914 _ (b) 


INCANDESCENT  LAMP 


Display  Men  To  Hear  Talk 
by  J.  W.  Johnston. 

Tito  Flower  CUy  Association  of 
Display  Men  lias  sceurctl  tlto  Loeturo 
Hall  of  llrlclc  Church  InsULuto  tills 
evening  for  an  informal.  Illustrated 
talk  by  J.  W  Johiistoti,  of  this  city,  mi 

invention  of  tho  Electric  Lamp.”  Tito 
outortaliiment  will  lie  complimentary 
mid  Is  offered  ns  a  courtesy  from  tho 
Display  Men  of  tho  city  to  all  interest¬ 
ed  in  Edison  and  his  famous  iuvontlon. 
Mrs.  F.  Clayton  Lamp  1mm,  soprano 
soloist,  will  sir g  after  tho  stcrooptiron 


"M31‘I0H  PICTURE  -  GENERAL" 

OMAHA  (NE)  NEWS 
December  10 <  1914  (D) 


BENSON  A  FRIEND' 
OF  TH0S1  EDISON 

Visited  Burned  Plant— Head  oi 
Company  to  Sell  First 
Edison  Movie. 

HOW  HE  GOT  IDEAS 


Unbound  Clippings  Series 
Clippings  (1915) 


These  clippings  cover  the  year  1915.  Most  of  the  items  are  taken  from 
newspapers,  but  there  are  several  longer  magazine  articles  as  well.  Many  of 
the  clippings  relate  to  Edison’s  opinions  about  the  war  in  Europe,  his 
appointment  as  chairman  of  the  newly  formed  Naval  Consulting  Board,  and 
the  use  of  Edison  storage  batteries  in  submarines.  Also  included  are  clippings 
concerning  the  fire  of  December  1914  and  subsequent  rebuilding  efforts;  he 
debate  about  the  respective  merits  of  brick  and  concrete  structures;  and  the 
report  of  the  National  Fire  Protection  Association  and  National  Board  of  Fire 
Underwriters,  which  attributed  the  fire  to  the  lack  of  protective  measures  on 
the  part  of  the  Edison  company,  mistakes  by  the  West  Orange  Water  Co.,  and 
an  undermanned  local  fire  department.  Some  of  the  articles  report  tensions 
between  the  West  Orange  Fire  Dept,  and  the  Edison  company  s  brigade  of 
volunteer  fire  fighters. 


In  addition,  there  are  clippings  regarding  Edison's  plans  to  shut  down 
his  cement  plant  at  Stewartsville,  New  Jersey,  because  of  slumping  sales;  the 
deaths  of  longtime  associates  Charles  E.  Chinnock  and  H.  Ward  Leonard, 
Edison's  receipt  of  various  medals  and  honors;  his  views  on  protecting  the 
chemical  industry  through  trade  laws;  and  his  development  of  a  miner  s  lamp 
and  a  powerful  portable  searchlight.  There  are  also  many  items  pertaining  to 
the  visit  by  Edison  and  Henry  Ford  to  the  Panama-Pacific  International 
Exposition  in  San  Francisco;  their  meeting  with  botanist  Luther  Burbank;  their 
trip  to  Los  Angeles;  and  Edison's  attendance  at  the  Panama-Califorma 
Exposition  in  San  Diego. 

Approximately  20  percent  of  the  clippings  have  been  selected.  Most  of 
the  unselected  items  are  duplicate  versions  of  stories  about  Edison  s 
appointment  to  the  Naval  Consulting  Board  and  his  trip  to  California.  Also 
unselected  are  clippings,  unrelated  to  Edison,  about  submarines,  the  war,  and 
the  California  expositions. 

Most  of  the  news  stories  about  the  fire  of  December  1 914  and  its 
aftermath  can  be  found  in  Cat.  44,509  and  Cat.  44,510  in  the  Scrapbook 
Series.  Hundreds  of  additional  clippings  about  the  Nava]C°nsulting  Board 
and  Edison's  visit  to  California  can  be  found  in  Cat.  44,452,  Cat.  44,453,  and 
Cat.  44,454  in  the  Scrapbook  Series. 


Friday/  January  08/  1915 


music  nr  puBij§.^smmEioHs. 

Need"  0/!  .;  I/rReil  li3 

•in-^urVBttlillc  tonUMMSfeU-  " — "* 

'  Vorlt  CHy  visiting  Committee  ot  tho  Stoic  I 
I.CIinritlM  Aid' Association.  ' 

:"A  plcasnnt'aud  familiar- tunc  frequent- 


.do',  or  dcfectlyo  It  Is'  both  ,n  source  ot  goodj 
cheer  nnd  a  Stimulus"  s 
This,  committee  visits 
io  hospitals 1  "  1 


Building,-  10S  East  !2d" Street,  Manhattan.' 

e  acknowledged  and  carefully  dls-| 
trlhutcd. 


January  04,  1915 


NEM  YORK  EVENING  JOURNAL 
Saturday,  January  02,  1915 


Aeolian.  Company 
Mow  Preparing  to 
Make  Phonographs, 

|  lias  Developed  Instrument  That| 
^nlarges  Scope  of  Rcpto- 


2? 


Identified  will 

f  pianos  anil  piano-players, 
preparing  to  bogln  tho  manufacture  of  I 


NEWARK  (NJ)  NEWS 
February  01#  1915 

EDISON  IS  HONORED 
i-  AT  ANNUAL  DINNER 

"His  Boys”  Pay  Trilmto  in  “Old 
.  '  Man”  at  Banquet  of  Em¬ 

ployes’  Club. 

WELL-KNOWN  SINGERS  ENTERTAIN 


SALEM  (HA)  NEWS 
February  27. 


BALTIMORE  (MD) 


"HA UVKJf  VJAUL)  I.BUNARU" 

CINCINNATI  (Oil)  ENQUIRER  NtM  YORK  TRIBUNE 

BOSTON  (HA)  H0RN1NU  HERALD 

February  20,  1915 

February  19,  1915 

February  19,  1915 

•  I’ or  il:  War'll  Lomiiiril.  Cinrinna 

•  i'JIVlio  Won  Konown  ns  In  vim 

4 

. •  W1NVENT0R 

;  gpS  AT  DANCE 

IHSSSSu, 

wnri1  •iltlWard  Leonard  Stricken 

«.Wi  jj^iring  .Ball  tiiven  by  •! 

Ohio"  riUrunry  f  lSili.  lie  1»i" 

P 

itfe  $ttSc  'LvenUoni.  1.'  “  . . .  „,  «J 

luVofi  by  ^Mierlcoi.  Institute  of  Kj«W«j| 

?ii  |||  H  1  |j  1 

Sizrirrr”,;^ 

m m 

“,a 

1.T“dln  H 

1  igBiil 

IS  'SasgSgis 
riri  «/•;)  ■/  v 

g§  ^Siil=, 

SM'ssS 

Uvwronco*  jS^knylfS'inKiw 

SirS3E'i 

fljn.K-.1-  n«  Prwlilenl  • 

.ventorV  lillllil  of  America,  in  a 
iJjanil  nioflt  of  th«  «H..t  1. In 
^of  The  country  arc  ^rniircrcnUn 

’lanes  rinco  to-morrow  lii_I.nr.ri 

hlch^Edl-'; 

inventors, 

SB 

Drqnxvlllc,  Interment  lo  »«  ’  v~rk™5>Mr  • 

;g|un?"',.!.n.rrw“  Sj»* 

W*,  -who  inrsHEj.  i 

|||ggg 

eel 

ORANGE  (NJ )  AUVEUTISEU 

March  05,  1915  (0) 

AUSTIN  (TX)  STATESMAN 

March  09,  1915  (U) 

IJROOIU.YN  (NY)  CITIZEN 

March  01,  1915  (U) 

riLultor  Tell,  of  iucidcnt,  ikfiJ,vou-| 

REPORT  ON  EDISON 
FIRE  ISJPUBLISHED 

Experts  Found  Luck  of  Fire 
Protection  at  Plant 

TOWN  DEPT.  UNDERMANNED 

!-■.  EDISON’S  PLANT; 

[Great  Inventor  Disco  v- 
!  ers  It  Awhile  Working 
.  j'n  Laboratory, 

tTJuMnaaTI£Ub*ouwiU/\vo'rk^lii  idsTabp^a- 
itory  after  midnight  today  discovered 
‘great0  pinnT' h w-o^i  ml  ‘’summone^rtho 

!T1,„ . | 

igS  1 

1  d”va«utod''lllollKdlBOU  plout  !i  licecm-  1 

E“ps 

Were  Called  Too  Late  To  Be 
7-  Eflective 

rn!  i-  '  '■  i.  '  ' 

dent  lire  - il ' "a if u I’e  of 

■  ..Tltc  building  burned  was  tho  only 
|ono^|»ot^  tpuchcd  j-by^  tho  ^conflagratlor 

vm-mz  ,i 

i 

SSSHrSS 

i 

\  ;  states,  ••‘wtioj 

sources  of  tho  West  Orango  Flro  Do- 
phrlmont  very  shortly  after  tho  alarm' 

•  "Tho  complication  of  valves  on  tho 

was  only  one-fourth  full  when  tho  flro  . 

piled  wore  shut  off  from  tho  yard 

was  pumped  flowed  through  the  houao 

plcto  previous  arrangements  regard-- 
ing  tho  opening  and  closing  of  thoso 
valves^  nro^  in^a  large  .incusuro  ro-:i 

dcrgroiind,  wero  broken  by  tho  col- 

Tiio  Investlgulors  found  Hint  tho 
nhsenco  of  nro  walla  In  tho  largo 
bulldingH  permitted  the  llmnea  .to 

| 

a  character t should  bo  inndo  impos¬ 
sible  rathor  than  to  dopond  on  tho  flro 
rcBlating  qualities  of  buildings. 

CM 

NEWARK  (MJ)  HEWS 


"CEMENT" 

NI5W  :«)HK  Utf)  AMERICAN 


EDISON  CEMENT  CO. 
^  MAY  CLOSE  PLANT 

Works  Near  Stewarisville  Likely  to 
Shut  Down  Entirely  Because 
of  Poor  Prices. 


NO  PRODUCTION  SINCE  DECEMBER 


CEMENT  CO.  MAY  SHUT  DOWN 


*P  1  K  E" 


ohangp.  (hi)  fluvramsiat  patehson  (mj)  cai.i. 

March  ?.6,  1.9.15  (l>)  March  OU,  J915  (I)) 


This  Time  in  Record  Plating  Mill 
-Wizard  Directs  Fightr 
ing  ot  Blaze. 


NEW  YORK  (MY)  IT'.U'.C.IIAf'l 
narcli  OU,  19.1S  (I)) 

ANOTHER  EBI50N 
FIRE  MENACES 
INVENTOR'S  PLANT 

‘[‘Wizard’*  Directs  Flame  Fighters 
'  —Stops  to  Put  on  Rubbers  at 
c,  ^  Wife’s  Command. 

.WEST- ORANGE  FIRE  CHIEF  HAS 
NARROW  FSCAPE. 


"PHONOGRAPH  -  GENERAL" 
DENVER  (CO)  NEWS 


"COLOR  MUSIC" 
DENVER  (CO)  NEWS 


March  15,  1915  (D) 

JMfflBi 

[|S|H8|f 

Denver  Dry  Goods  Manager  of: 

Phonograph  Department'-, 
j, :  j. ;  '  Visits  Factories. 


INVENTOR  IS  STILL  ACTIVE' 


March  Xi,  19X5 


MUSIC  TRADES  -  NEW  YORK  (NlQ 
March  13,  1915  (D) 


clison  Plans  Ileal  Opera  for  Country 
s  lucent  birthday  nl  West  Orange,  N.  .1.,  Thomas 
>on,  hale,  hearty  anil  optimistic  iU  sixty-eight, 


coming  years,  Mr.  I* 


’s  thoughts  promptly  tun 


.w  ....  . „  , . .  . le  demonstrated  three 

years  ago  and  on  which  he  is  still  working.  ‘Tin  going 
to  make  those  real/’  he  said,  pulling  his  slouch  hat  down 
over  his  roreheud  and  thrusting  his  hands  deep  into  his 
trouser’s  pockets;  “it’ll  take  some  work,  and  we’ll  have 
to  pul  up  a  building  just  for  that,  but  Bird  Centre,  lown, 
is  going  to  have  its  opera  as  well  as  New  York,  and  it 
will  lie  mighty  near  as  good  as  that  at  the  Century 
Theatre  in  Now  York,  only  the  divergence  in  prices  will 


"lmra-mix,  storage" 


ST.  A1..UANS  (VT)  MESSENGER 
March  16,  1915  (U) 


new  York  truiynk 

Ha  cell  27,  1915  (U) 


iy1  KtOnilJO  IiUUOl’leH. 


ptcy 

-Icai'-lnvRtito'rfj 
l,o  bimHrutpcyl 
Federal  ;Sior-] 
a  bun^uptj 

•U""“ 


CORPUS  ailMSTI  (TX)  CALLER 
March  17,  .1915 _ (D) 


“/  CAN  SEE  HOW  THOSE ^ 
POOR  MEN  DIED."— EDISON 


Crew  Overwhelmed  by  Gas  as  They  Fought  for 
Life,  Declares  Inventor — Blames  Sub¬ 
marine  Storage  Batteries. 


LITERARY  DIGEST 


LITERARY  DIGEST 


NEVV  V0"«  TlAIEg 


Episows' FRIEND^  SUlCjD.EV 

•’  PIIEBHOU*.  N.  J-.  M'lrdl 

LiroGliniaudm-'.  »  (r'cl“,ii 


M,a“  m''  ilylnt:  off. 


■Was  Trusted  For  Meals 


Byjj'Agcil  Cincinnati  Itailroad 
‘  v  Lundi  Itoum  Proprietor,;'-:^ 


1  ^oml^aggart  Was  Given'.Hisj 
Start  at  Xeniaa^ 


NEW  YORK  SUN 


PHILADELPHIA  (PA)  RECORD 
April  29,  1915  April  08,  1915 


FRIENDS  ..APPEAL  TO  EDISON 


MISS  MORGAN  TALKS'  . 
i  TO  THE  EDISON  GIRLS 


Visits  llliililiimiii-  mill"  TiTlsi 
Tlii'iii  A iimil  Vnciilimi 

SiivIiikh  I'Tinil.  j 


SAYSVILLE  (tOT)  LEDGER 
April  03,  1915 


S-Ctmiimliuu  lliuL  tmiiigallon  doo| 
iiveht  tin)  Bi'reml  of  diauaae,  madcj 
Ss.  H.  Udldwnter,  Health  I  coi||.| 
nor|,eI1How.  i'iirk,  whoa  ho  .erdorij 
fiid/thd-ldiacimlioaaaeo  at  XoriaaWohyjlo' 

pawin'  l,u'““-rd.  hareugh  |  except 


>i  iilo-aloiaiiB  aha  hall'JJ'lde, 
ubuliahlnB  toriiialdc-i 
CWTumigatiaa'vaa  a  “goad  one." 
iSfeiddod  that  Iho.Oommtalooor  at 

J} . . dgatiua  are  Id 

daol'i1;  aeeordiug  la  Ur.  Lliucjr  11  •  A' ,l- 


HEW  YORK  SUN 
April  30,  1915 


PASSAIC  (NJ)NEWS 

April  06,  1915 


MR.  EDISON’S  FIRE. 


iriB'Clarcncc  Berry, 
onrH&'¥di"onSdia- 


BOSTON  (MA)  EVE.  GLOBE 
April  19,  1915 


NEW  BRUNSWICK  (NJ)  NEWS 

April  19,  1915 


EIKSPJJ  P1AMT  UP  AGAIN. 


West  OraiiKC,  N.  .1.,  A|iill  111 
«*en  weeks  nfter  the  major  portion  ol 
the  tnaiu ninth  Edison  works  here  were, 
ruined  by  lire J.h  ey  Imvc  been  entirely. 


■  ,,co»  employed  nt  tho  chemical  plant*. 
Thomas  A.  Edison  has  hud  built  ut 
: Silver  Luke  to.'supply  dyes  to  the  tex-; 
,  tile  Industries  of  this  country  qiul^aUiO; 
jfprAtlio  luitmifiictuio  of  cnrbolle.;rtcluj 


(NAME  OF  PAPER  IS  MISSING 


April  09,  1915 


PORTLAND  (ME)  EXPRESS 


"p.msoH,  'r. 


-  HONORS  S  AWARDS" 


SEK1NGEIELI)  (MA)  EVE.  UNION 
Hay  25,  1915  (U) 


SAH  DIEGO  (Cfl)  UNION 
Hoy  20,  19J.5 _ (U) 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edison  at 
Franklin  Institute,  Philadelphia 


I  EDISON  AND  SCIENTIST  fH 
1  "HONORED  BY  INSTITUTE 

'  P 11 1  LADELPH 1  Ay  |  i 

fdXVho'wSiiit^S'oStheFSn^ 

In  1911  by  Sq inner  lnsuU^?of! 
irkors  In  iiliyslcnl-acknco-or.'tech-j 
l^ontrlbjitlon  ,;j.o: ^Uman’i kripw-, 
Ifjo,  and.  It  l.sf  planned.-  to'  make 
t,  awards  •'  encli*xch  r.  ■  ' 


: 


cf\1 


"PUCMOGRAPII  -  TELEPHONE" 


COI.UMUUS  (Oil)  DISPATCH 
May  24,  1915 _ (1)) 


SAN  FHANC1SCO  (Cfl)  OIUONiCLE 
Hay  20,  1915 _ (D) 


IIOLTOKE  (HA)  TUANSOUPT 
Hay  25,  1915  (D) 


WIZARD  EDISON 
PREMEfVtt 
OVER  TELEPHONE 

Completes  “Telescribe”  I  iiven- 
;  tion  Which  Records  Talks, 

I  3000  Miles  Apart. 

OF  V;E R  .Y  GREAT  .VALUE; 

‘-.Now  Be :  Pj-oacnted! 

;  i  TVithT/ZOanhod  'Evidonoo"  j 
'  ■  /•.MCept.fo'r'Many  ;Years.  : 


ventlon,^  tho  tolcaerlbc,  n  combination 

which  telephone  com 
perfectly  recorded  o 

J000  miles  npart. 

Edison,  UiouKh  handicapped  by  denf- 
ihano  mul  phonograph  and  a  few  prl- 


May  30,  1915 


LWpuld  Have  Millions 
'^Tof;  Rifles  and  Tons.  v 
.^oT  Ammunition 
at  Hand. 


■:;VvjsV  Safeguards  if  War : 

*?$■"}  Should  Come.  "•  >’/ 


hero  perfected  tho  aeroplane. 

_ ii try  r  hundred  men  of  special  traln^ 

luff  qulokl^  would  bo  at  work  hero,  upon 
new  means  of  ropolllnff  tho  Invaders.’  \l 
would  bo  at.  I W, myself. »  Thcro  would,  fib 
no  lack  of  tho  spirit  of.dotcrmlnntlon  oij 
tho  spirit  of  solf-sacrlflco.  Of  thwo  tV.o 
qualities  wns\tho.  •Spirit;  of-  •TCj.  maqa 


i  UUI  ;  »:  i  in?,;  Certain  y.-.U:^!  o 


I  industry;.. and  o; 
shoultPb^.v.9  two 
perfoe t‘ ordef ve .yen  greased,  w 

■  A  Cv  nViT>  h  6  u !  d‘  t’cT’r  c  q  u  t  r  ed t  h  o  a;anu* 


HftGERSTCMN  (MU) 


Monopiane^j^Mer.Xums^: 
to  Militdrty-Binlwe  Work 


ASHVILLE  (NC)  CITIZEN 
June  23,  1915 


MKJM1J0ND-  ;;j 
DISC  IS  HEARD  HERE 


HARTFORD  (CT)  COURANT 


''CEMENT" 

WASHINGTON  (NJ)  STAR 
Juno  17,  m5  0» 


BAt.TIMOSE  SUN 
June_29i_191§ _ lUL 


EDISON  IMVEMTS  WHIS-n^l 
m  .J'V-ictorv  Device  Described  Asl 


.’■''clltois  S' r>\'e«tf  OrnnBeJiJje^tl- , 

'$$$ f*1.'"?'-'"™ out  the  ImiatfjPvfTV1- 1 


NEWARK  (NJ)  NEWS 
June  28,  1915  (D) 


"ORE  MJI.I.JNU  -  COjCHAI." 
NEW  YORK  (N)  AMERICAN 
Juno  15.  1915  (D) 


June  18,  1915  (D) 


Brooklyn  (NT)  News 
June  16/  1915 


EDISON  CO.  MAN  HONORED 


W.0$  I"  AVOjN';  MAN;  SUES 
IN  VENTOIt  EDISON 

~ormcr  Relative  and  Business 
•  Associate  Alleges  Breach  ' . 
of  Contract. 


•  Jcrscy^,^ot;i  a6vqra^vvW.C!^Ha;^hiis 
;  legal  ;oct|orii  ugalnatjhls- /former 

or,.  ifnma>C3-;f« 


president  of  the  Associnlion  o£  Edison 
Jlluinhtnllut;  Companies.  : 

.  •William  I >o  V.  Kct/onhcrgcr,  a  po\v- 
lor  engineer  or  the  sales 'department 
;  of  the.  Brooklyn  Edison  Company,:  .re- 
cctved '  llie  I  leitrv  I..  I  x.hortv  :eold 


o  Brooklyn  ’coin- 
Eight’ Association  al  Us  October  juoct- 

>  .'•  V 

Second  only  in  Iniporlunco  ,to  the- 


Sllhvcll  amt  his  daughter, 


flrst'wlfe,.  and  they*  woro  'former 
issqclatctfjJ;jn\  business, :v;Mn  -Stll  wotl 
m^n^chargo'bt’tho.Canadlaii'part^of 
**'"'‘buMlneqsMh'tIIftinlU9n?’..pntnrlo:f..U 
*  ^conducting VaoKb.  eiperi- 

•orfcctlng  an‘ electric .  light 


:Mr..  y  til  well’s .  eye,  resulting  ’ In  his 
jbUhdnesa.\‘  ArtQi*.  his.  blindness  ho  had 
o  irctirq^frqpi! business  aml^ho : bought 


o  ' December '  meeUn&  ol 


the  Brooklyn-  section.' 

NEWARK  (NJ)  STAR 
June  12,  1915  ( 


WCODSTCCK  (CT)  GAZETTE 
June  19,  1915  (D) 


NKW  YORK  11I5UM.U 


NKM  YOUR  TIMES 
■nine  20.  1915 


(») 


ffiO.OOO  WITNESS 
PARADE  AT  ORANGE 


Wore  Than  100  Floats  Are-  in-.  Lins 
,  .In' Great  Industrial  Don-"'/. 


ORANGE  INDUSTRIAL  PARADE 


"MCtlMON  PICTURE  -  GENERAL" 
OSHKOSH  (Wl)  NORT1IWESTEHN 
June  HI,  1915  (U) 


"MUl'lUH  PICIUKK  -  COI.OU" 
SCIEHTIFIC  AHE1UCAN  (Hit) 
June  19,  1915  (!->) 


“ran'XQN  tucrimr.  -  gisnkiwi." 
HJ.NMRfttmJ.S  (HM)  '.miBUNE 


June  16/ 


(») 


MUYBRIDGE  AND  THE  .MO  VING  PICTURE  MAOHIMB.  | 

TU«a»  A. 

T  5£22- 

Irtto^  11  VtV  T do  to "f  n> 

pictures  In  notion,  now  so  uuiicrsnlly  KJeiiJwM^nwuloi  °l>y  Plutcuu  1  ot 
popular  all  over  the  world.  •  /•...  in  183‘J.  It  isthusdeinwibed: 

•  *■  MuybriBO  W  upon  Ms-i^by  having  radial Jits 

mere  accident.  Jlo  had  oecn  ‘,n8“W»f  ‘  Vntind1  itB  norlnhory  wild  blackened  on. 

by  tbo  luto  Lclnnd  Slnutorii,  ut.  tboJimo  around  no  Jr  other,  -  were 

tl.u  Ornt  horse  »o»t  i >t  tbo  J JS  tbo"<lbik.iS.  front  o£,a  uinrojr,  with  the 


cameras  lio  stretched  silk  thronds^i 


tho  •  threads  wore  brokon, '  the  cninoraa 
took  a  snapshot  of  that  particular . 
stage  of  progress.  By  putting  tho  snap¬ 
shots  together  and  riffling  them -with. 

-  ’  a  perfect  picturo  |.of  'ttiol 

ion  was  obtained,  j 


l-ff  height ?31r?So  ^W'&arcyUoC  Paris  estubliBhcd'.tt  htu- 
niter.  nnotbor.tfia  ^dioAfor. investigating  tho  motion  of  anU 
rokon.  tho .  cainoras  TnalsHy  similar  photogruplile' methods.. 


regular  camora  for  taking  snapsbots’-by 
uu.\automnlic  process.  Homo .  of  t  tb’pao 
reached  ‘  America  -  in  r 

niitlo  .the  patent  offico 

jdientions  for 

i£tor  workinB,Jas'>iiota*cknowleiiaosi-iqr 

i  dozen  years  oq  tKo  hials  oupplioclJ)y 
Miiybridgc,  Buccccded.in  porfecting^and 
producing  hiH-.Vklnotoscopo,'.’  :nnd-; 
reducing  animated  photography  to 
loinmorcinl  possibility.  '  .  V.  | 

,  Tlio  idea  of  ■»  moving  ploturo  )vas 
lot  original  wi.  Muybridge, . although  I 


|v..-|bJtbo  gonoral  ploturo  in  motion  from 


lo'mnij  not  nave  ooon  nwnr.M 
lirno  o *£  bis  photographing  of  Occident 
••hut  others  had  boon  .working-on.. tho 
mino  scheme.  Morothun  200'yonrs  ago 
in /  'advertisement  appeared  in.  the  Lou* 


on  which ’tbo  soriul  pictures  are 


been  pnin^od^  M 

color  photography,  Jhj^  using,- si'^dtano- 
light  of  appropriate 

register,  beeauso  very  minuto,  or-"- 
.adjustment,  between  the  picture* 


tu  _  intolerable 

I  SiBCd-bv^'O.  A.:  Smith,  tbo  Jesuits  of 
whiclj’  woro  oxlutnt6d  nt  tho^Soi-Jot)^  of 


I’-ITTSBUIM.;  (PA)  1.EHUKU 


jSTEINMETZ  MEETpSioM/VS  A.  EDISON  - 

j£  and;1||P^reat  investor 


TOI.KOO  (Oil)  TIMES 

June  ?.U,  1915 _ (I)) 


oplie  cy  _Q£-SfegtTng5fz~~~“~  J 

And  Edisopi  Coming  True 


IlKhUnt;  IIUriMMRK. 


TRIBUTE 


June  27,  1915 


'Edison  Searchlight 
•  .  Greatest  in  World 


NEW  EDISON  DEVICE 
awes  neighbors 

Powerful  portable- Searchlight 


®Mp|§l§f! 

m»n  found  wr*  ,  nroilucoil  I>y  o’ 


VALDOSTA  (Gfl) 


West  Oraiiste  Wizard  Will  Lend 
Genius  to  Ilis  Cmm- 

V/ 

ACCEPTANCE  IS  ANNOUNCED 


READING  (PA)  TELEGRAM 
July  13,  1915 


INDIANAPOLIS  (IN)  TIMES 
July  13,  1915 


EDISOI  ftCCEPTS N 
PUCE  UPON  ill 


Secretary  Danicli  .  Calling  Tal¬ 
i'  •  cats  of  Americans  to 
\  Countryls  Aid. 


0«  ^IVfeorforwardJat,^^ 


Secretary  Daniels’  Ll 
r  — ’o  been  intending  fo.  ----- 
p.- Daniels  said  In  Ills  letter, 

—  - my.  admlr- 

d .  patriotic 


natural  I  -tiow  >  c  o  nd 

ns  of  warfare  las-  shown-,  abroad  | 
..  way  nan.'bc^vorJcocl.-qutj.Vtto 
•jtinlc  it  can  be.  to  establish  .at  th 
moment.  *  a  -  UopuHinoiit^jO 
nd^  suggeaUons,  ^either 

imuttuwti  as  t o° w  hotl 1 0 r ^Ui e y  con-; 
.  — n  practical  suggestions  for 
* - . -y  suggestions,  b 


routine  work.  ■  - 

Meeting  tlio  Submarine  Problem 
’•We  are  confronted^  with 

to  consider  only  o 
in!? T*  fief  sure*  that,  with. 
Unowledgo  of'tho  ofllcors 
of*  the  keenest  and  most  It.  . 
minds  that  wo  can  gather  I 
togeiher.  and  with  yourown  wonder¬ 
ful  ‘brain  to  uhl  us.  tlio  United  Statos| 
will  bo  able,  us  In  *.1110  past,  tr  ‘ 


Glmlly  Accepts 

.nnouticing  last  night  ---. 

gladly  accept  ^.  Secretary  j 
s’  invitation,  Mr.  Etllson^sala  • 
portunt  that  ft  shoul£p^aUcndcd  to 
Khropo\vas  bringing  before  tho  pub-] 
r uim  developing:  ideas?  abd  .'In 

of  Americans— especially  /’"' 


PSP 


EH  TUBE'' 
ENGINES  OF  Mil 
FBBJMYBFM.5., 

Accepts  Daniels’  Offer  to  Be-! 

come  an  Adviser  of  New  j 
I  Bureau  of  Invention. 


I  HONOR  AND  SENSE  OF 
DUTY  DONE  ONLY  PAY 


Will  Also  Enlist  Other  Experts 
|  Prominent  in  Special 


MEM  YORK  SUN 


FT.  WAYNE  (IN)  SENTINEL 
July  1G,  1915 


ENGINEERS  FAVOR 
THE  DA*  PLAN 

PusaslBil  It  Hit  IIS  til  How  Ho 
Woulil  lliivu  Advisory  i 


OVFICIAI.  ltKtJtiHST  TAKDA  I 


Daniels  Returns  from  Con¬ 
ference  Over  Bureau 
of  Invention. 

I  Washington,  July  10.— Secretary  Dan- 
I  ids  returned  today  irom  his  eoulercnw 
1  with 'Thomas  .A.  Edison,  "'ho  will  head 
i  the  now  navul  advisory  board.  .Mr. 

I  Daniels  said -general- plans  for  tho  now 
j  uVltOZU  iteinvciiiiou'in  ;  tho  deimrtmeul 

^ITfcdUou  thought,"  said  the 

*  tnry,  “that  the  plan  offered  possibili¬ 
ties  of  getting  the  foremost  engineers  oi 
tho  country  to  aid  us.  Ho  is  impressed 
with  the  idea  that  methods  of  warfare 
arc  undergoing  radical  changes; 


WKfM 

HB 

msm 

f  •  §  •- 


MANAMA 


WANC-ISCX)  (CA)  CIIKUNJ 


WEDNESDAY,  OOTOUJ 


Speeches  Arc  Clicked  Out  on 
,  Tickers  at  a  Remarkable 
Gathering  in  Honor  of 
Great  Inventor 
YOUTHFUL  WORK  AS 
j  OPERATOR  RECALLED 
Famed  Electrician  Eats  Pic 
:  and  Drinks  Milk  After 
Allowing  All  Courses 
to  Pass  Untouched 


PANAMA  -  PACIFIC  -  EXPOSITION  -  TEI.EGRAPHEHS  UANQUL7J.' 


October  20,  1915  SAN  FRANCISCO  (CA)  CHRONICLE 


\Thomds  A  .Edison  Guest 
1  At  Remarkable  Banquet 

Famed  Inventor  Is  Guesl  of  Telegraphers,  Who  /Use 
Only  ihe  Key  in  Clicking  Off  Speeches  While  ' 
Sealed  at  Tables  in 'the  Commercial  Club 


cid 


PANAMA 


-  PACIFIC 
October  20,  1915 


EXPOSITION  -  TELEGRAPHERS  HANQUETI.' 

SAN  FRANCISCO  (Cft)  CIUIOMXCEE 


'Associated  Press  Owes 
Much  to  Telegraphers’ 


Veteran  “Key  Pounder” 
j  Welcomes  Noted  Guest 


Youngest  Operator  Is 

Strong  on  “ Ambitions’ 


Forgiven  for  Inventing 
The  Quad,  Says  Coggins ! 


pimteffi?:).. _ _ _ 

.Edison  Introduced  by 

Decatur  Amid  Cheers\ 


CITY’S  LIGHTS 
FLASH  HOMAGE 
10  SipiGI 

.Thomas  A.  Edison  Makes  Tour 
of  Downtown  Streets  as 
Thousands  Cheer 
ILLUMINATION  IS  UNUSUAL 
“Magnificent  View”  Declares 
Guest  as  He  Looks  at  | 


Remarkable  Sight 


'  |  BANQUET  TO  EDISON  BY  TELEGRAPHERS  HAS  NOVEL  SETTING^ 

Scene  al  the  Commercial  Club  last  evening,  where  Thomas  A.  Edison  Was  honored  bii  the  telegraph  operators 
of  San  Francisco.  Bclou)  is  a  group  at  the  speakers '  table.  They  are ,  left  to  right ,  M.  FI.  dc  )  oung .  Henry 
Ford ,  ] .  G.  Decatur  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  A.  Edison. 


H 


Participants  in  Events  Which  Took  Place  Yesterday  at  the  Exposition 


'.NT  M.  H.  dc  YOUNC  presenting  a  commemorative  medal  to  Harry  Maundrell,  president  of  the  Build c 
Francisco.  In  the  background,  left  to  right,  are  H.  IV.  Lemman.  president  of  the  National  Association 
,  and  A.  H.  Bergstrom,  president  of  the  Ceneral  Contractors’  Association  of  San  Francisco,  mho  me, re  a 
fs  by  Vice-Fresidenl  A/7  II.  de  Young.  The  illustration  at  the  right  shoms  Miss  Christine  Miller,  phone 
Edison,  mho  sang  to  the  cromd  mho  Mended  the  Edison  day  exercises  in  Festival  Flail. 


"PANAMA-PACIFIC  EXPOSITION" 


SAN  FRANCISCO  (CA)  CIIUONICI.E 


^Thomas  A.  Edison  Accorded 
Greatest  Ovation  of  Year 
By  Enthusiastic  Throngs 

Place  Master  Inventor  Holds  in  Hearts  of  Countrymen 
Demonstrated— Is  Glad  He  Cannot  Hear  Words 
*  I  of  Praise,  Would  Embarrass  Him,  He  Tells  Wife 


m —  -  - 

111 


^  I 


Page  IV 


SAM  FRANCISCO  (CA)  CHRONICLE 


'■  PAM  AH  A  -  PACIFIC  IMPOSITION" 

Friday,  CteLober  22,  1915 


October  22,  1915 

Panamai  Pacific  Exhibition 


!  SAN  FRANCISCO  (CA)  Examiner 

i  "TELEPHONE  -  LONG  UISTANCE" 


THE  SAN  FRANCISCO  EX. 

EDISON  IN  S.FTHAILSN.Y.r 

I  HIS  FIRST  TALK  ON  PHONE 


Inventor  Greets  Aids  in  His  West  Orange 
Laboratory  in  3,400-Mile  Conversation. 


Ci'ol  ) 


SAM  FRANCISCO  EXAMINER 


"UURBANK  VISIT  -  SANTA  ROSA  (CA)  ■ 
EDISON  &  FORD” 


Farmers  Told 
By  Ford  About 
New  Tractor 

"It  Will  Be  a  Real  One  and  Out 
by  Next  Fall,”  Says  Maker 
of  Autos. 


“Isn’t  That  Taking  Mean  Advan- 
tage  of  Nature?”  Asks  Inven-  approached  mo  on  uio  nuujcct.  au 
tor,  Looking  at  Plant  Creation  jfuYJ,»o 'o°  thrlio'nnmmin  mi!  al'.c- 

“Tliis  My  Dream  of  Years— See-  Hairy0  A^rt^^0^4hIi^lba!Sln^:y 
.  ingtlieMan  in  His  Home,”  Says 
Edison  on  Reaching  Burbank’s 

Thousands  of  Children  Greet  Dis-  SCX“£ hlln  11,0  prlcc'  001,10  ono  BI’E'  I 
tinguished  Visitor,  Who  Is  Ac-  ^^‘“nwo^S111  for  *500,  1'or“ 
companied  by  Heniy  ’  Ford 


Schools  to  Get 
Holiday  to  See 
ThqsJ.Edison 

Pupils  'to  March  Past  Inventor 
as  He  Stands  in  Court 
of  Universe. 


STANFORD  WTS1  'I'  -  IWATA-  I’ACtF  1C  lffH l1*  tTlOM 
OCTOBER  23.  1915 


Oct'oHeir 


101?) 


11  PAM  AM  A  -  PACIFIC  EXTOSmOM" 


SAM  irilAMCXSCO  (CA)  EXAMINER  C1III.UKEN  GKKCT  EU.ISUM 

OcLobec  2!3<  1915 


SHRILL  CHEERS  OF  35,000  \ 
CHILDREN  GREET  EDISON 


75,000  Pupils  From  Public  and 
Parochial  Schools  to  Sec 
Inventor. 


Pictorial  City.  Sheet  (II.) 


Ever-advancing  Southern  Metropolis. 


California 


WIZARD  LEARNS 
SPEED  SECRET.  | 

‘Greeted  in  Southland  with 
Film  Demonstration. 

5 Edison  is  to  Devote  Today  t 
School  Children. 

To  San  Diego  Tomorrow  and\ 
■  Back  Here  S  unday. 


■  Thomas  A.  Edison,  tl 
of  nature's  secrets,  ha' 
speed  exemplified  to  * 


As  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edison  and .  party  j 
alighted  from  the  private  car  Superb 
at  Santa  Barbara  at  10:30  o'clock  yes¬ 
terday  morning,  a 

IlgiliH 

homo  ofB.  F.  Raymond  at  Monteclto. 


?[ars)^It0F.rBut°aS'lsV-P°'vrrcd 

tno  Universe 

night  ^ho  wizard  of  electricity 

^ntoBtho  screen^of^tho^lnlvcrsal  1 

““fel^S^saldUiol 
Sea5um°£  ••Thl°o^r«d«s  -  —  ' 

‘a,StLr0mtlo’u^s£t?^  commcnu 


niifw  ■' 

Sr“loped  downCoiiuinBa  Pass, 
in  oloctric-llghted  hours  at  Univ 
Cl"You  surely  have  joint  nElits^m^hla  j 

YArrlg - • 


EXAMINER 


IPS  ANGELE 


OCTOBER  .  29,  i  1911 


FRIDAY 


PRICE  2  Vi'  CEBITS; 


FRIDAY  MORNING. 


hAIHhI 


SWATHE  EDISON 
WITH  GARLANDS. 


'nvcnlor's  Day  at  Sclio 
Continuous  Ovation. 


ChccA 


thousands  of  Children  1 
Him  Unceasingly. 


Praises  Iisjiccially  Work 
Tech  niad  Institutions. 


Isupcrlniondonl 


Angelcu 


children. 


I 


MMHBi 

f  - 


! 


traum 


"PANAMA 


DIEQO 


Plaza  de  Panama  at  Exposition  Yesterday.  I 


Inventor,  Taking  Good-Natured  Rap  at  Bryan, 
Asserts  “Everybody  Believes  in  Preparedness 
for  War,”  and  Approves  President’s  Speech  Be¬ 
fore  Manhattan  Club  in  New  York. 


IB  A.  EiliBon.  In  an  Interview  givon^last  owning  1,1 ‘lleb“"^“  ! 

fore\ho 'Manhattan  Club  In  Nmv  York  Thursday  evening  on  plana 
»1  preparedness  lor  war.  When' asked  about  the  statement  in  op- 


NATIONAL  MAGAZINE 


Unbound  Clippings  Series 
Clippings  (1916) 

These  clippings  cover  the  year  1916.  Most  of  the  items  are  taken  from 
newspapers,  although  there  are  a  few  magazine  articles  as  well.  Included  are 
articles  pertaining  to  Edison's  testimony  before  the  Naval  Affairs  Committee 
of  the  U.S.  House  of  Representatives  in  March;  his  views  on  the  proposed 
naval  research  laboratory  and  other  military  issues;  his  support  for  Woodrow 
Wilson  in  the  presidential  election  afterTheodore  Roosevelt's  withdrawal  from 
the  race;  his  attitude  toward  women's  suffrage;  and  his  receipt  of  an  honorary 
doctorate  from  the  State  University  of  New  York.  There  are  also  several 
clippings  relating  to  Edison's  manufacturing  works,  including  a  long  article 
from  the  New  York  Herald  about  the  various  product  divisions  of  Thomas  A. 
Edison,  Inc.  Other  business-related  clippings  discuss  improvements  at 
Edison's  cement  plant  and  his  use  of  police  to  disperse  striking  phonograph 
workers.  In  addition,  there  are  clippings  about  the  summer  camping  trip  in  the 
Adirondacks  with  Harvey  Firestone  and  John  Burroughs,  as  well  as  remarks 
by  Edison  about  the  scarcity  of  tarpon  in  the  waters  of  Lee  County,  Florida, 
which  he  attributed  to  indiscriminate  netting  on  the  part  of  the  local  fishermen. 

Approximately  30  percent  of  the  clippings  have  been  selected.  The 
unselected  items  consist  of  articles  unrelated  to  Edison  and  duplicate 
versions  of  the  stories  in  the  selected  clippings.  Although  there  are  few 
unbound  clippings  for  1916,  hundreds  of  related  articles  can  be  found  in  Cat. 
44,454  and  Cat.  44,455  in  the  Scrapbook  Series. 


Could  Be  Done  by  Standardiz-  j 
ing  Parts,  Inventor  Tells  the  j 
House  Naval  Committee.  j 

WANTS  GREAT  LABORATORY,' 


I«?ic|bi:  Merest  : 

J2&3L._.  I  jNos.  A.  Edison  Warns  lee  Co. 


■v><  v*s«.i  “  * : 


NEW  YORK  HERALD,  SUNDAY,  MAY  7,  1916. 


I  THOMAS  A.  EDISON — Manufacturer  and  Business  Man 


Edison 

Motion  Pictures 


[.OUlSVJLI.li  (KY)  MElUVIjj 


OLD'GRADS”  AT 


oston  School’s  Jubilee  Is 
Celebrated  In  35  Towns  | 
'  Over  Wire. 


0U1SVILLE  MEN  ON  CIRCUIT 


lundrcda  Of  Voices  - 

Refrain  When  “Star  Spangled 
Banner”  Is  Sung. 


lo  hundreds  of  gradim 


PHILADELPHIA  (PA)  PUBLIC  LEDGER 
June  26/  1916 


VINELAND  (NJ)  JOURNAL 
June  29,  1916 


“ax  EVKXiMi  iv nil  i: ni sox.” 


C.  Volglit.  Mgr. 
of  Vineland, 
jud  by  Thomas  A. 


Ono  of  llio  pleasing  features  of  the 
jovonius  will  ho  Uio  playing  In- unison 
Mr-  Kdlson’s  'viol iTi  rc-croatlons 
llss  Margarita  Parkinson,  the 
|  well  known  Vlueland  violinist. 

The  other  solo%  .will ibp Miss  Eliza-; 
>th .  Sooy,  the  -well  •.  -known  .  South 
inolnnd  ,  soprano,  assisted  by  Mr: 
alter  Dunlmm,  of  Millvlilo:  ,dt.tho‘ 
| piano.  . .  • 

Coorgo  It.  Hanson,  of  the  Edition 
|  laboratories,  will  be  in  charge  of  the 
t,  anil  admission  will  bc| 
I  by  card  only.  .Those  who  hnvo  not  re¬ 
ceived  a  card  can  obtain  same  at  the 
C.  MV  Wiiro. Store,  711  Landis  Avonuo: 

This  demonstration  is  givon  fertile 
I  sole;  purpose  of  acquainting  tho  pub- 

development,  and 
| those. invited  will  be  under  no  obliga* 

I  lion  whntovcr,  therefore  It  is  hoped 
who' have  received  invitations  will 
ils  opportunitj 
evening's  pro- 


ia.uvi;usvii.i.K  (my  )  iiKimi.n  mew  *ouk  times 

July  20,  igXfi  July  17,  1916 


Y  .  Edison  on'  Suffrage. 

iMiouias  A'  Edisai«s»fcr  Woman  Su 'Tragc,  but  he  refuses  tc 
,  heiSSnS  pub'ic  statement  the  other  day  he  denied 


improvement  were  accelerated  ii 


oticcd  that  in  slates  where  worn 
o  use  their  ■  votes  to  dimmish  s 
Still,  1  believe  that  they  shotf 
:  some’  day  they  will  be  sure  to  n 


cut  that  women  who  have  1 
it  for  moral  progress  may  I 
In  a  general  way,  howeve 


iv c  suffrage  they  have 
s  mid  to  correct  other 
re  the  power  to  du  so, 

d  the  ballot  given  them 
resented  and  denied  in 
it  will  probably  be  ail-  J 
and  that  thg  calm,  sape 


'milled  that  Mr.  Edison  is  right  in  his  views,  and  that  the  calm, 
support  lie  gives  to  the  suffrage  cause  is  really  the  best  kind  of 
port.  Women  of  the  Suffrage  party  advocated  this  sane  support  o 
'  it.ptr  policies  They  have  no  sensational,  spectacular  reforms  to  pull 
off,  but  they  do  hope  to  belter  conditions  a  whole  lot  by  their  interest 
md  votes/ But  women  as  citizens  evolve  along  with  men,  and  arc 
not  likely  to  accomplish  anything  that  is  not  the  product  of  the  slow- 
Iv  developing  moral  sense  of  the  whole  community. 

'  The  real  argument  for  letting  women  vote  is  about  the  same  as 
the  argument  for  letting  men  vote— the  argument  democrat) . 


13OST0M  (Mfl)  CONGREGftTIOMftLIST 
July  20,  1916 


AdviseJ^Leaders  He  Stands 
Squarely  Behind  'Senate'.s 
Building  Programme 

Measure's  Reference  to  .Conference  j 
Is  ■■  Temporarily — - Blacked — —by ;; 
Buchanan,  of  Naval  Committee 


ADVISORY  BOARD  WOULD 
LOCATE  LABORATORY 


UftLTIMORE  IP1UJ  SUN 
July  26,  1916 

UAHOLllMAHS  LEND  AID 

Delegation  Prom  Baltimore  Visits 
Daniels  In  Interest  Of  Na¬ 
val  laboratory. 


SECRETARY  SHOWS  INTEREST 


July  17,  19IG 

I  EDISON  DENIES  QUOTATION. 


SYRACUSE  (NY)  PQSl'-STANIMRD 

July  29,  19J.G 

July  17,  1916 

(SEEK'  FACTS  ON  1 

; Edison  Calls  Police ^  ! 
to  Scatter  Striker's] 

EDISON  TO  CALL  MEETING 


o  Consider  Proposed  New 
Naval  Laboratory. 


N  FRANCISCO  (CA)  CAI.I.  &  POST 


“You-Bon’t  Feel  Pinched 
Anywhere,  Do  You?”  Asked 
Mr.JEdison 

TUOMAS'A.  EDISON,  witching  the  oporutioi 
o£  tlio  first  plioiiogrupli  ever  used  in  »■ 
nuloiniiliilu,  talked  rapidly  as  lie  studied  tin 
proposition,  and  talked  especially  on  lioiv  to  live 
‘‘The  main  thing  is- to.  keep  your  boil; 
LOOSE,”  said  lie.  As  ho  said  it,  lie  knocked  on 
o£  his  |oiv  slioes  oil',  exposing  an'  interesting  gra; 
stocking;  then  put  ifoii'Kgttiu,  showing  it  iva 
absolutely  loose.  '• 

“Don’t  lot  anything  pinch  you  ANYWHERli 
IE  you  wiint  to  live  a  long  time  and  work  wliil 
you  live,  keep  your  body  perfectly  i'reo  £roi 
pressure. 

“Don’t,  as  a  matter  of  course,  linvd  any  prei 

the  big  veins  and  arteries  aro  exposed. 

“  Kuiiiumhcr,  also,  that  every  inch  o£  the  hod 
should  be  kept,  free  o£  pressure. 

“Every  inch  is  covered  with  the  little  eapi 
laries,  luiir-likc  veins  that  feed  the  whole  hod 
and  the  millions  of  celts. 

“Pressure  ANYWHERE  means  that  a  ecrlai 
part  id  your  body  is  deprived  of  its  natural  loo 
And  starvation  and  death  begin  where  the  boil 
is  pressed  and  choked.” 

Edison  is  wise;  remember  what  ho  sa.vs- 
everylhiug  LOOSE  for  youjand  your  .children, 


MACON  (GA)  TELEGRAPH 
August  21,  1916 


NEWUUUGII  (NY)  JOURNAL 


UTICA  (My) 


September  04,  1916 


MlIAS  1  EDISOM ) 

'  OU!  FOR  WILSON 


Says  President  Has  Given  Us  -  Peace 
With  Honor.  /  ... 

FORMERLY  FOR  ROOSEVELT 


'*  Hughes's  Capacity  For  Hindsight  U 

Highly  Developed,- As  We  Loarn 
From  Hie  Spocchcs,’'  Soya  Fa- 


Now  York.  Sepj.  4.—' Thomas  A.  Edloon 
yeatorday  showed  that  ho  ia  ono  ot  tl»o 


through  revolution.  ' 

alow. .irylnR^procosw^  that  WUs, 


September  04/  1916 


IComiick,  cl.™ . .  w,  fcMU  weillBcnil1c  Aa. 

lU'nnl  Committee.  Charles  IM„BOr,o]|  of, 
New  York,  is  president.  The  National 
I  Committee  made  public  tonight  a  state- 1 
fment  by  Thomas  A  Edison,  in  which  (hot 
jj  «-f  life-long  J 

>r  re-election. 


support  Mr  Wilson 


swiNCFircu}  (m/v)  risi^uducan 
September  0-1/  JL91G 


September  05/  1916 


IH01 

I!' 


L  El 


Great  Inventor  and  Party  Travel 
by  Three  Autos  and  Camp 
Along  Way. 


•  (Special  to  Tho  Times.) . 


ALBANY.  NEW  YORK.  NOVEMBER  1,  1916 


" PHONOGRAPH  -  GENERAL” 
CI.EVEI.ANU  (OH)  Pt.AlNUEAI.ER" 
December  31,  19.1.6 _ (») 


"CEMENT" _ 

EASTON  (PA)  FREE  PRESS 
December  14  <  1916 _ 


Unbound  Clippings  Series 
Clippings  (1917) 

These  clippings  from  newspapers  and  popular  magazines  cover  the 
period  January-August  1917;  no  clippings  for  the  last  four  months  of  the  year 
appear  to  have  survived.  Included  is  a  long  interview  with  the  New  York  Sun 
in  which  Edison  relates  incidents  from  his  days  as  an  itinerant  telegrapher  and 
discusses  his  inventive  career,  his  musical  tastes,  his  dietary  habits,  and 
numerous  other  subjects.  Also  included  is  an  interview,  originally  published 
in  The  Etude,  containing  Edison's  views  about  composers  such  as 
Beethoven,  Chopin,  Debussy  (whom  he  did  not  like),  and  Strauss.  Some  of 
the  clippings  pertain  to  Edison's  war  research,  which  was  conducted  in  secret 
in  a  building  at  the  top  of  Eagle  Rock  Mountain  in  West  Orange,  and  his 
support  for  the  Liberty  Loan  campaigns  to  sell  war  bonds.  Other  clippings 
report  various  threats  against  Edison  and  his  interests  made  in  anonymous 
letters,  along  with  an  alleged  murder  plot  by  anarchists  in  Chicago. 

In  addition,  there  are  clippings  about  the  celebration  of  Edison's 
seventieth  birthday,  the  deaths  of  longtime  employees  Harvey  H.  Green  and 
Leonard  C.  McChesney,  and  the  organization  of  the  Wisconsin  Cabinet  & 
Panel  Co.  to  manufacture  cabinets  for  Edison's  phonographs.  There  is  also 
a  long  article  about  the  career  of  recently  deceased  chemist  Jonas  Walter 
Aylsworth,  as  well  as  clippings  about  the  deaths  of  William  G.  (Billy)  Bee  of 
the  Edison  Storage  Battery  Co.;  former  associates  James  F.  Cummings  and 
James  C.  Hippie;  and  Thomas  Coyle,  an  employee  in  one  of  Edison's  phenol 
plants  who  may  have  died  of  chemical  poisoning. 

Approximately  50  percent  of  the  clippings  have  been  selected.  The 
unselected  items  consist  of  articles  unrelated  to  Edison  and  duplicate 
versions  of  the  stories  in  the  selected  clippings. 

There  are  no  general  scrapbooks  containing  clippings  from  this  period. 
However,  newspaper  articles  and  other  documents  pertaining  to  Charles 
Edison's  role  in  the  Liberty  Loan  and  Victory  Loan  campaigns,  1917-1919, 
can  be  found  in  four  unselected  scrapbooks  (Cat.  44,51 1 ,  Cat.  44,512,  Cat. 
44,513,  and  Cat.  44,514)  at  the  Edison  National  Historic  Site. 


"TIUnm.E  THEATRE” 


YORK  WUUl.l) _ Jan.  31,  ID  1.7 _ (U) 


Concert  and  Reception  Also  to 
,  Signalize  First  of  Down-  . 

.  town  Scries. 


u. 


&ooah»  llio  J.utlo  Tlitmblo  Tl 
SNo.  10  Fifth  Avonuc,  to  fllftnal 
[oponlnir  of  o 

oxhlbltlonn .  •*«  •••- 

Isqunro  nnlffhl Juil'nM  t hnii  over 
\n  liorotoforo  boon'  no 
•  o  dlaplnya  In  Uoop- 

,  art  trntlljtlono. 


WnnlitURton 


l?aco°for  dlsllnctlvo  diaptaya  In  Ucop- 


uilly  In  '»il»  studio,  .nij 
i^vorlt  In  *  tout  pern  or 


"WEST  ORANGE  LABORATORY" 
January  19/  19X7 
NEWARK  (NJ)  NEWS 


EDISQpW^/ffii'tECElVE/ 
PRIZES  FOR  SUGGESTIONS 


"PHONOGRAPH  -  CABINETS" 

January  17 ,  1917 _ W 

NEWARK  (NJ)  NEWS 


I  EDISON  MEW'S  THE  3RLD  AT  SEVENTY 

^  He  Sees  It  Through  Y  :s  That  Twinkle  as  Hel 

.  tells  How  He  Has  Did  Age  Away  With 
Hard  Work,  Lor  and  Light  Diet 


"WEST  01WIGE  -  EAGLE  HOCK" 


HEW  TORK  SUN 
February  19.  19J.7 


; EDISON  EXPERIMENT 
STILL  DEEP  MYSTERY 
Believed  to  Be  Working  in 
Mountain  Retreat  on  Sub - 


HEW  XOUK  miUUHK 
February  17,  J.91V  (U) 

ffiSOHATWORK 
OH  10BHTAM  T0j| 

Inventor  Giving  20_  Hours 
Daily  to  Government :  j 
Experijnents 

•SAID  TO  BE  DEVISING  , 
A  NEW.  SUBMARINE, 

Building'Bparded  Up  and 
;  -Watchmen  Keep  OutV  | 
All  Intruders 


Feb.  08/  1917 


EDISON  SETS  ABODVQTTABD,: 
FbUT  DOESN'T  FEAR  GERMANY 


and  even  at  his  home,  wm  bo  »»«— - 
panled  by  a  bodyguard.  James  Burns, 
for  many  years  employed  in  the  Edlion 
plant,  ’  received  special  police  power* 
from  the  Eost  Orange  Tom  Council 

mentor  fear  of  on  attack  because  of 

?!S!t“ani  WiWthlJ  ""fe^  weeks  he 
SflVTcove  for  Florida  to  eoead  several 


•of'CKu«lV  llocfc  Mountain. in  Esso* 
County,  and  there  was  upending  twenty; 
hours  dally  devising  a  suhroalino  fat 
the  use  of  the  government.  • 

One  unskilled  In  tho  scioneo  of  Mr. 
.Edison  and  hla  experimental  staff 
found  yesterday  tit-*  '>■»  casino  we 


A  watchman  guarded  tho  only  en- 

SSL" i  ta.c.taff 

work  on  the  upper  floor.  I 

.  Two  men  were  at  work  upon  n  atrinR 
of  wires  with  costly  silk  .Insulation  or 
various  colors.  Theeo  wore  being  erect. 

It  through*  the.  tr 

...leltouse,  whero. 

8  erecting  n  switch** 

d^Eagic  nockjllountalnli.es  utawl 

for  ,the ^»kV  ^Uns^f^wos.  not  at  fine 

'If,1  w.?1 «£.*! "d*M»"!vu’bMn?t 

.work  !in  thja  isolate 
'’  ^vising*  a  no 
ii  oxploslve, 


UAhlSJLGH  (NC)  MEWS  Q13SERVER 
ITebcuacy  12,  1917  (1>) 

DEFEND  NAVY  PLAN  \ 

V  FOR  ELECTRIC  DRIVE  ' 

•  FOR  BATTLE  CRUISERS 


(By  Tho  Associated  Press.)  > 


to  tluv  contrary,  whatever  tho  nuthorlty, 
indicated  .coil  bo  built  and  that  if  nccca- 
10  brhlgo;  and  I. do  not 


„„ .  .  .iro  •  few-  engineers v;im 

iny.*  profession  who  ■  will  sorlouely  quos«; 
tion  my  nseortiun'ln  a  matter  ’ of  "this1 

IJr,  •  Spraquo'  dpclarcd  he  is  readyjto 
Souso  commlttoojf  it  la  doslrod  and  that 

tho  Secretary --of  the  Navy  and  Chair¬ 
man  Padgett,  of  tlm  ITouso  committee. 

"WEST  ORANGE  LABORATORY" 

PTTTSBURG  (PA)  LEADER 


'powerful  explosive.  JK 
for  the  United  Stales  Navy.  wga 

'  ./.'  •All  Rumors,  Says 'Secretary  ... 


^displaying  stm.^ 

^-STWliSSMs  butXu‘«°"  5 

record  themWer  Just  what  l!)/y  “r°r,. 
monlln'g'foruioUnltad  "states  govern- 

?w^ty^u»dluyBtan&.n^-V^ 
working  out  many  things  of  Impor- 
lonco.  Lut-it  Is  •“  h.  "sold 

Eb”V°i!  ,inraigl>t  add  that  Eagla.Rock 


1‘iifiily  and  wll 
cover.  oltliongU  lie  underwent  a  u 
nnorat^ou  surgco|js  operatwj  “] 
who  is  Of),  nml  an  engineer,  t i 


forU\din  lie  dissented  vigorously.^ 
'hi*  told  the  physicians,  "so  I  guess 


EVENING'  SUN.  SATURDAY,  FEBRUARY'.  10 


By  GERTRUDE  STEVENSON. 


DINNER  GIBBIj 
HISglEMPljS; 

President  Writes  Congralulal-j 

\ng  Inventor  on  His  Seven-  j 

tieth' Anniversary. | 

CAKE  TEN.  FEET.  V  i 
r-. '  ■  IN  CIRCUMFERENCE 


Naval  Consulting  Board  Member  Says 
lie  Feels  Fine' and  “Is  Working 
Hard  for  Unde  Sammy.”  . 


MILWAUKEE  (WI)  JOUUNAI. 


"WEST  OKftMGE  -  EAGI.E  HUCK" 
MEW  11IUT1AN  (CT)  KGUOKU 
February  XII ,  1 91V  (L>j_ 


EblEABEXM  (MJ)  JOURMAI. 

February  17,  1917  (D) 


MOtJiri.AIR  (MJ)  MQMTCI.AIUAN 


mountain  toi 

felic  wizard  III  Casino  In  Eagle  -Roci 
P>iclieved  'to.be  Making  Exp crirupntj 
r^'For  The  War- -  /  ,  v 

iMhi  tho  .Casino,  ontho.topxof:£ugli 
“  >,  Thomas  A. !  Edison  is  apondiui 

Soil  portion 'of  his;timu..thesajday} 
ing  •'  (ucperiinonts;  j '  T|m  \natu 
o ;  experiments  is  Ckept ;  abaolijtalj 
it;  -but/tlibyAoro'-beliovcd;  to  rbtfftj 
ee  tion'i;.with‘,v  thoir'Un  ited-  •  Stow 
yW.  Mr.''Edison%bcing,-'.chui rmfii 

;f cy/idny ajaf tcr-ltho' Uiiitod - atotej 


.  -  pnaivo&’pr  ut  n  j 
taken’ to  keep : secret, til o' natu^-of*^ 
iitSfa oil’s  v  acciviti os.^  ltoud a !•} 

erptq  structure  ;*  save,  one  ha*'° p 
boarded- up."  vTho  [remaining  o  ntroncl 
js’iunder  guard;  and  no  j>prsqn*oxcepl 
MriD3dis.on,  or^ar  memjbcr^  of >  his >  jp  er? 

Hho‘ place,''' 


MISSiriEMJ  m)  HE^UIMjICAN 
February  21,  1917  (U)  . 

MYSTERY  AT  EPISON  PLANTS 


ij-yrhoflo  who ‘have,  boon 
’concroto  building  on  tho  mo 


llJ  a  CLEAVES  WITH  •  "  ' 
;  v  EDISON  STUWClb 


"naiM-OH  PJ.CTUKK  -  C.KMIiltftl-." 


[■Xjri.'j.ot'l  PICTURE  MIMS  (MYC) 


Trade  Honors  Edison,  JLs  Creator,  on  Nalal  Hay  i 
-Wv  . . . . . 

^  SHOWING  of  the  |  <“‘j  |„i'| I  .Imvii  Mi.  ISjIImu..  nml  llml 


•lira led  l*y  tli«  fai  l  that  rMiwnli*  * 


"WEST  Ol IMGU  LA13 


THREAT  TO  BLOW.UP  , 
THE  EDISON  PLANT1 

Police  and  Private  Detectives, 
on  Guard— Bodyguard  for|  '• 

n '  Ap^L^nir wllo 

iu. addition,  Mr.j 
^dlMn?^toa^eiiffai;od  urivato  .  go-; 

aro  1  n nldttoT^T\on ^ a •  IiIktK  tgrudo^otj 
paper.  Ajtboyffb  -U^  1«  though* 

MfeT 

*  s,  __  . 

ipa  liodaruaBUcat 


c  i  od 


Aft  2  -  M 


IfUu  •Jts  lb- 

J-vncdv*''  t 


MUSIC 


•tones  and  ll 


EDISON  ON  MUSIC,  Parlow  came  to  play  for  me 

ic  invention  of  the  phonograph  that  l?ld  her ■•that  her  E  siring  w; 
turned  Edison’s  attention  to  music,  re-  she  would. not  believe  me.  1 
marks  The  Elude,  in  a  recently-obtained  microscope  and  found  •» 
interview,  witli  the  great  inventor.  The  phono-  »hat  wr 
graph  was  a  natural  evolution  of  some  of  his  '  ™"" 

experiments  with  the  telegraph  and  the  telephone. 

The  first  phonograph  records  were  made  on  tiii- 
foil.  This  proved  an  unsatisfactory  method, 
and  the  next  records  were  made  upon  wax. 

Although  a  vast  number  of  men  have  since  then 
been  engaged  in  the  development  of  the  industry 
through  different  companies  and  different  means, 
tile  principle  of  reproduction  was  embodied  in  the 


nc  time  ago.  1 
a  bad  one,  and 
n  put  it  under  a 


It  produced  the  wrong 
result  was  simply  excruciating 
mi  to  be  gifted  with  a  kind  of 


illicit  the  orditi; 


. . pn  of  Edison  which  - . . 

ling  when  it  was  first  .shown  that  it  was  dis- 
'  by  many.  The  original  model  of  the 


is  often  highly  disagreeable.  It  must  b 
away  with.  Some  day  it  will  be.  If  yo 
never  heard  it  you  have  not  listened  closet 
;h.  It  is  particularly  noticeable  in  the  tw 
many  instruments  i 


first  phonograph — the  first  machine  that  talked—  upper  octaves,  where  in 
s  in  the  Kensington  Museum,  in  London.  Could  virtually  drowns  out  the  y — 
he  great  inventor  ever  have  dreamed  of  what  an  strings  or  wires.  1  he  listcnei 
inmensc  and  revolutionary  part  his  little  inven-  been  following  the  music  and  hi 
ion  would  play  in  the  music  of  the  future,  when  given  to  the  thumping  sound; 
lescendants  from  his  little  contrivance  would  be  remedied  .some  day.  Again, 
n  hundreds  of  thousands  of  homes  all  over  the  P‘ano  ls.,°u;?  ?r  " 

,orld,  capturing  and  echoing  the  interpretati  1  "" 


treble.  This  is  remedied  in  the  orchestra  through 
master  musicians  u  wnir  the  number  of  instruments.  —  If  there  were  as 

Mr.  Edison  hkd  a'  strong  ambition  to  secure  many  bass  viols  in  the  orchestra  as  there  are  first 
fords  of  the  voice  of  Adelina  Patti  and  Car-  violins  think  what  the  effect  would  be.  Yet  the 
tta  Patti.  Unfortunately  owing  to  the  fact  effect  in  the  piano  is  decidedly  out  of  balance, 
at  the  tinfoil  of  the  original  records  stretched  and  nobody  pays  very  much  attention  to  it. 
dly,  these  records  were  ruined  after  a  few  After  a  pian.o  has  been  played  upon  for  a  few 
ials,  but  this  served  to  turn  Mr.  Edison’s  atten-  >°urs  it  begins  to  deteriorate  Hus  is  due  to  e 
,n  toward  music.  He  knew  next  to  nothing  of  hardening  of  the  ends  of  the  hammers.  Hus 
usic  as  the  musician  knows  it.  Notation,  which  deterioration  goes  on  with  every  stroke,  so  that 

. .could  have  mastered  in  a  be  instrument  eventually  takes  on  a  metallic, 

interest  him  particularly  tinny’  sound,  which  should  be  remedied  by 
has  been  pickmg^hejclts.’^ 

linkable 


weeks,  did  not 


£^3?  KtS  -d  P'Mfson  after  commenting  the  great 
is  of  immense  interest  because  of  its  originality.  variation  in  the  human  sense  of  “aring :  again 
The  Etude  representative  found  Mr?  Edison,  referred  to  his.own  car,  which  has  the  remarkable 
engaged  in  his  unpretentious  laboratory  at  ability  to  perceive  many  extraneom 
Orange,  New  Jersey.  Many  a  High  School  discords  which  the  ordinary  car  doe 


darinct  he  hears  the 
of  the  keys  s 


SSry^fettym'SSi  momlompi^  FV«Wng  W 

standing  lit  a:.  smoke-darkened  furnace,  stirring  reason  lie  had  special  clarinets  constructed  for  lus 
rlmminl  rnmnmmds  in  little  vessels  His  own  purposes,  with  noiseless  mechanisms, 
intensity  of ‘concentration  was  such  that*  lie  did  In  speaking  of  orchestral  and  operatic  perform- 
“""While  I  am  extremely  fond  of  opera. I  have 


LONG  LIFE  OF  THE  SINGING  TEACHER 
Francesco  l’islocclii  (1659-1726),  founder  o 
the  famous  Bologna  school  of  singing,  and  hi 
celebrated  pupil.  Antonio  Bcmaccht  (1690-1756) 
died  several  years  under  the  seventy  mark. 

But  Niccolo  Porpora,  bom  in  Naples  in  1686 
lived  into  his  eightieth  year. 


the  fourscore  age. 

Giambattista  Mancini,  bom  in  Ascoli,  in  1716 
lived  to.tlie  age  of  eighty-four. 

Two  members  of  the  celebrated  Garcia  famil; 
lived  to  a  ripe  old  age.  Manuel  died  m  London 
in  1906,  at  the  unusual  age  of  one  hundred  am 
one.  His  sister,  Pauline  Viardot-Garcia,  born  ii 
1S21,  lived  into  her  ninetieth  year. 

Mme.  Marchcsi,  who  died  in  1914,  had  enterei 
her  eighty-eighth  year. 

Julius  Stockhausen,  the  famous  German  sing 
ing  master,  was  eighty  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

Dellc  Sedic,  of  Paris,  who  died  several  year 
ago,  had  nearly  reached  the  eighty  mark. 

'  Lamperti,  the  famous  Milan  teacher,  was  i: 
his' eightieth  year  when  death  claimed  him. 

Vannuccini,  another  famous  Italian  teachei 
died  at  the  age  of  eighty-four. 

Duprcz,  a  noted  French  singer  and  teachei 
was  in  his  ninetieth  year  at  the  time  of  his  death 

Faure,  the  baritone,  composer  of  The  Palms 
was  eighty-four  when  he  passed  away. 

Sbriglia,  another  famous  teacher  in  Paris,  wa 
in  his  eighties  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
VOCAL  TESTS. 

For  the  benefit  of  those  who  would  like  t 
know  what  it  is’  that  makes  one  singer  good  ant 
another  bad,  a  shdrt  general  list  may  be  mad 
of  the  inartistic  and  totally  wrong  things  o 


Dynamite  Threats 
Bring ,  Police  to 
GuardEdisonPlant 


Chairman  of  Naval  Consulting 
Board  Has  a  Bodyguard  at  _ 


WlCLlAMr.G.'  BElvlS&i;  :• 
CALLED"  BY' DEATH 

Edison  Conrpniiy  Official  WasAu- 
lomoUle  Pioneer,  Driving  l'irsl : 

HERO. JN  BATII-Ij.  pi:- SAN  1 1  AGO 


August  08,  1917 


LOS  ANGELES  (CA)  TIMES 
August  05,  1917 


swam " x 

.  BATTLE  FOR  U;  S. 

|  IN  Li^ORAtORIES 

I  Apd  Ho  Works  1G  Hours  a  Day 
I  Under  a  Close  Guard  by  Secret 
.  Service  Agent  —  Employees 


Pledged  to 'Secrecy. 


iirsfe 


Edison’ vs.' Germany.  - -  T - 

'.that  is  bolng  silently  fought  hero  today. 
A’Uttlo  rod  brick  building  covered  with 
ivy;  Is  the  famous  inventor's  laboratory. 
I  "X  havo  no  right  to  talk  about  it— ask 

mossngo  that  canto  from  tho  closely 
|  guarded  sanctum  today,  !n  response  to 
nil  Jnqoulry  of  Edlsons  work. 

|  ■  Edison  Is  guarded  lllto  ^a  president. 


1  siouthed  him 


SALT  LAKE  CITY  (UT)  HERALD 
August  04,  1917 


KDISONPLANT.^^ 
’  ON  WAR’S  PROBLEMS' 


’'SUIED .  TO.  •  KILL  EDISON  | 

An^lS 


\53r9* 

C  Chicago  anarchists. 


SPOKANE  (WA)  SPOKESMAN-REVIEW 


► 


I 


Unbound  Clippings  Series 
Clippings  (1918) 

These  clippings  coverthe  period  February-December  1918.  Most  of  the 
items  are  taken  from  newspapers,  but  there  are  several  lengthy  magazine 
articles  as  well.  Included  is  an  article  by  William  Maxwell,  vice  president  of 
Thomas  A.  Edison,  Inc.,  regarding  his  perceptions  of  Edison's  personality  and 
character  and  his  "capacity  as  a  businessman,"  as  well  as  an  article  by 
Charles  Edison  discussing  his  experiences  working  for  this  father.  Another 
article  by  Maxwell  pertains  to  sales  and  advertising,  while  two  articles  by  Mark 
M.  Jones  of  the  Personnel  Service  Dept,  of  TAE  Inc.  deal  with  human 
resources  management. 

There  are  numerous  clippings  about  Charles  Edison,  including  his 
elevation  to  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Thomas  A.  Edison,  Inc.— a  position  that 
enabled  him  to  obtain  a  deferment  in  the  draft;  his  emergency  appendectomy 
in  February;  and  his  marriage  to  Carolyn  Hawkins  in  March.  Other  clippings 
concern  the  resignation  of  chief  engineer  Miller  Reese  Hutchison;  the 
enlistment  of  William  Leslie  Edison  in  a  tank  unit;  and  the  foundation  of  the 
Edison  Pioneers,  an  association  of  former  employees  primarily  in  the  electric 
light  and  power  industry.  In  addition,  there  are  articles  about  Edison's  public 
promotion  of  Liberty  Loan  war  bonds;  his  camping  trip  with  Henry  Ford  and 
John  Burroughs;  and  the  general  effects  of  the  war  on  his  research  and  other 
activities.  There  are  also  reports  of  rumors,  quickly  denied,  that  Edison  would 
run  for  the  U.S.  Senate  as  a  Wilson  Democrat. 

Approximately  20  percent  of  the  clippings  have  been  selected.  In 
addition  to  numerous  duplicate  versions  of  most  of  the  stories,  the  unselected 
items  include  articles,  not  directly  related  to  Edison,  about  science, 
technology,  and  warfare;  naval  affairs  and  antisubmarine  devices;  motion 
pictures;  and  the  annual  Edison  Field  Day  event  of  company  employees. 

There  are  no  general  scrapbooks  containing  clippings  from  this  period. 
However,  newspaper  articles  and  other  documents  pertaining  to  Charles 
Edison's  role  in  the  Liberty  Loan  and  Victory  Loan  campaigns,  1917-1919, 
can  be  found  in  four  unselected  scrapbooks  (Cat.  44,511,  Cat.  44,512,  Cat. 
44,513,  and  Cat.  44,514)  at  the  Edison  National  Historic  Site. 


PHILADELPHIA  (PA) 


SPRINGFIELD  (IL)  REGISTER 
February  11 ,  1918 


raff ,W  «.V*.f«r«di«c„; 

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BRIDGETON  (NJ)  NEWS 
February  12/  1918 


FREDERICK  (MD)  NEWS 
February  13,  1918 

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READING  (PA)  TELEGRAM 
February  12,  1918 


PUB.  LEDGER 

February  12,  1918 


ElpiN. WON’T  COMIv  j 
'^011 IJ.  OK  T.  DEGREE 

i'go^Uuay  ill  »ta.  I.uburiilury, 
•&im0so  Hu  Cnii'l  Ue  Uon- 

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ijitip ’« «l* ,1» u ay  to.lnljo.iv  dnf  «'K 

-iijiLiloliuila.  jyiaj  (oi^elvQ  'inn ,  .Iwiyrnr  < 
.y»(un:f?Lii«<.i!,i;»;  i#  mu.iiy.  ,if  ^  •»»» 

jllin  ’4fni:t;tlint-H,‘.lii.a  liu 


MEADVILLE  (PA)  REPUBLICAN 
Febiruary  11/  1918 


kn  country  to  Imvo  luncheon  to 


ADVERTISING  S  SELLING  (H.Y.) 


February/  1918 


"^Advertising  &  SelTt 


<IBE  INDEPENDENT  AD  VERTISINO  AND  I1KRCI1  AN  DIS1N0  JOTrRHAL 

J.  GEORGE  FREDERICK 

ROBERT  C.  GILMORE  editor 


27th  Year 


FEBRUARY  1918 


Using  Salesmen  as  Missionaries 
for  War  Time  Business  Stability 


By  WILLIAM  MAXWELL 

Vice-President,  Thomas  A.  Edison,  Inc., 
Tnc  31,"  amt  of  orttelM  oi»  telling  for  Colli./*.,  Amiri 


Number  8 


with  the  gospel  of  better  business. 

We  had  a  man  clipping  newspapers  from 
the  principal  centers  and  all  of  the  trade 
papers,  getting  out  stuff  that  could  afford  a 

*  over  the  scrapbook  and  compiled  a  letter. 

When  tills  country  entered  the  war  there 
seemed  to  be  a  necessity  for  doing  this  again. 
On  an  average  of  perhaps  once  a  month  we  i 
send  out  letters  to  our ‘men  on  the  firing  line  > 
and  we  try  to  make  them  as  optimistic  as  the  j 
situation  justifies.  They  arm  our  traveling  j 


provide  the  best  means  of  keeping  this  kind 
of  propaganda  on  foot.  We  believe  in 
preaching  optimism  to  everyone — not  alone 
to  the  salesman's  customers,  but  to  every  one 
with  whom  he  comes  In  contact,  including  the 
baggage  man,  candy  butcher  and  bus  driver. 
Much  is  said  of  the  power  of  magazines  and 
newspapers  to  mould  public  opinion,  but  it 
has  been  my  observation  that  public  opinion 
has  never  been  finolly  moulded  until  it  can 


ighly.  I  am  not  altogether  unselfish  in 
•commendation.  I  believe  if  every 
is iness  house  would  moke  a  practice  of  y 


way — something  indisputable,  sound,  logical 
— it  will  accomplish  a  great  deal  of  good. 

It  is  not  surprising  that  the  small  merchant 
at  a  distance  from  the  center  of  war  activi¬ 
ties  is  perplexed  by  things  that^ore  happen- 

a  small  town  merchant,  and  if  your  traveling 
man  is  armed  with  information  and  with  a 
thoroughly  logical  conclusion  drawn  from  that 
information,  the  collective  effect  of  that 
would,  in  my  opinion,  be  inestimable.  With 
orders  such  as  Mr.  Garfield  put  out,  and  Lib¬ 
erty  Loan  campaigns,  etc.,  business  is  going 
to  be  pretty  spotty  unless  we  can  get  the 
trade  and  the  public  generally  to  act  up  to 
the  point  where  they  will  carry  over  these 
bad  spots  in  the  road. 

I  believe  that  every  traveling  salesman 
should  be  a  peddler  of  optimism  and  that  he 
should  renew  his  store  of  optimistic  argu¬ 
ments,  or  have  it  renewed  for  him,  at  fre¬ 
quent  intervals.  We  have  found  that  letters 
from  the  home  office  preaching  optimism,  and 


that  wc  don’t  yet  know  we  arc  in  the  war.  and 
that  it.  is  every  man’s  duty  to  try  to  be  un¬ 
happy  and  thus  prove  .that  he  does  know 
wc  are  in  the  war.  Personally  I  think  the 
American  people  are  disposed  to  accept  the 
war  in  exactly  the  right  spirit,  and  1  hate  to  ■ 
nnn  them  scolded  and  urged  to  be  gloomy  and 
‘  \  When  wc  entered  the  war  it 
r  a  stirring  adventure.  If  we  had 
shortly  after  the  Lusitania  was 
tcdly  we  would  have  thrown  up 
1  made  a  lot  of  noise,  as  we  did 
as  declared  on  Spain.  However, 
into  the  war  in  a  dromo^U  way. 


what  to  do.  Be  ready  to  do  . 
I  shall  take  in  the  draft.  All  v 
pectcd  to  buy  Liberty^  Bonds. ^ 

days.  I  shall  let  you  know  froir 
what  you  arc  to  do.’  ” 

The  American  public  has  in 
UiP  President:  ‘‘We’ll  do  who 


ADVERTISING  &  SELLING  (N.Y.) 


February/  1918 


Spreading  the  Gospel  of  “Business  Better  Than  Usual  ” 

How  Frederick  Stearns  Instructs  Salesmen 


c 


A  Letter  from  Mr.  Brisbane  to  the  Editor  of  “The  American  Magaz 


i  him:  Tell,  perhaps,  what  you  and  he  talked  about 
vr  Or  give  us  your  characterization  of  Edison,  telling 
ou  think  is  his  most  remarkable  quality/  Anything 


ted  without  the  touch  of  metal,  something,  perhaps, 
»  system  that  keeps  the  earth  spinning  in  its  orbit. 

Edison,  examining,  knitting  his  brows,  digging  into  the 
tl  before  him,  discussed  practical  common  sense.  I  can 
u  his  exact  words  because  1  wrote  them  immediately  in 

oriai  that  I  published.  .  ...  , 

uote  front  that  editorial:  “  1  he  main  thing  is  to  keep 
id v  loose,"  said  Mr.  Edison.  As  lie  said  it,  lie  kicked  one 
jw  shoes  olF,  exposing  an  interesting  gray  stocking;  then 


Edison— 

the  “Original  Man  from  Missouri 

Who  has  to  be  “shown”  before  he  will  believe  anything 

By  William  Maxwell 


FRESNO  (CA)  REPUDU 


RICHMOND  (VA)  TIMES- DISPATCH 


Etcinarkablo  Prophecy  of 
Wizard  in  1878  Kevealod 
jj  in  Article 

■  ci  FORESIGHT 


PALMIRA  (NY)  HERALD 
April  30,  1910 


NEWARK  (MI)  STAR-EAGLE 


April  03,  1910 


FORD  BUILDING  NEW 
AND  DEADLY  TYPE-OF 
SUBMARINE  CHASERS 


Every  Piece  in  Boat  Will  Be 
Standardized  and  Very  Lat¬ 
est  Methods  Are  Employed 
And  Ships  Will  Be  Turned 
Out  Like  Cars.  f  « 


IS  EDISON’S  VOW 

Will  Labor  Only  lor  Uncle 
Sam  “Until  Dutchman 
Is  Licked."  O / 

>1  nm  not  Rome  lo\ilo  ■> 
work  tor  anyone  nut  lJnolo  : 

the  tlutnnc.l  DuicUinsn  Is  llel«<L 
—  i  . statement  Is  attributed  lol 
. 13  quoted  by 


clitef  pnelnccr.  u-  -  -  .■ 

which  marked  lltc  bcRlnnlOS  oi 
activities  <»f  U»«  war  romrolttce  i 

'*•' V'-WES .SSSSn.  seerctu, 


OAKLAND  (CA)  TRIBUNE 
April  24.  1910 


BUFFAtP  (Ny)  NEWS 
April  23,  1910 


LOS  ANGELES  (CA)  TRIBUNE 
April  23,  1918 


Edison^il/Direc^  ^ 
;^ei^onstrurfions^,' 
^~l(eport  at  Capital 

White'  House  Is  Reticent,  liut'l 
Officials 'Admit  Big'Man  . 

Is  Slated  ■ 

itty  Tribune  tended  Wlrel  .’ 

1UNGTON,!  April  22.— Tbomaa 
~...-on  )ma  boon  Vcloctcd  for  dlroc- 
tor  of  nlrcrntt  production.  according 
to -a .-'rumor  in*  circulation  tonight. 
vTf»o*  report  could  not  bo  verified  at| 
tho^yhlto  .House,  whoro  It  whb  auid 
that- .the  president  vls  not.  ready,' to: 
Tnake!:anyt  iinnbunccmont ;  •rQgardJnR  j 
tho:  reorganization  of  .tlie-  ascnclcii^crl 
producing- airplanes,  which ;  his  bqen 
mnrio  neceaaary  by  ’  the  revclati/msi  of 
tho  breakdown  of  tho  prr  — 

Although  It  Is  said  tl 
wllj  select  a  mnn  of  national  repute. 


>,  and  wou|[d  'bi 


NEWARK  (NJ)  STAR- FACILE 
jApril  12,  1910 


;  of  Friendship*^ 


-®  WEDEN,  louf  will  recall,  played  Germany’s; 
game,  tafing  the  Swedish  ships  from  the  high; 
i seas,,  carrying  the  information  of  German  spies  in 
[sealed  government  pouches.  For  her  pains  Sweden 
;  was  rewarded  by  the  occupation  of  the  Aland 
i  islands  at  her  very  door. 

i’v'It  is  now  Spain's  turn  for  the  receiving  of  rc- 
:  -wards.  Spain  has  helped  Germany  by  keeping 
*.  Latin-Amcrican  friends  out  of  the  war.  She  has 
|  given  shelter!  to  innumerable  spies,  winked  at  the 
1  establishment  of  submarine_bnscs  on  her  coast,, 
’.suffered  interned  U-boats  to  break  parole.^  Yet, 
j these ;  generosities  avail  Spain  nothing.  She  is 
^threatened  with  a  course  in  ruthless  submarining 
•  unless  she  holds  up  supplies  landed  at  Spanish 
!  ports  for  transshipment  to  Pershing, 
v  Being  a  friend  to  the  kaiser  means  giving  all  i 


N EW  YORK  1,E  LIE'S  WEEKLY 
April  06/  1910 

/  [The  Truth  About  the^xWWartnc  ‘ 

At  last  wc  have  the  truth  about  the  submarine  situa¬ 
tion.  The  British  Admiralty  has  finally  consented  to  give 
out  exact  figures  of  shipping  losses  from  the  beginning  of 
the  war  to  1918.  Its  defense  of  the  previous  policy  of 
secrecy  and  coiu'calmcnt  was  not  very  convincing,  but 
the  important  thing  is  that  we  now  have  accurate  figures 
and  can  form  a  just  estimate  of  the  seriousness  of  the 
situation.  Since  the  beginning  of  the  war  the  losses  of 
British  ami  Allied  merchant  shipping  by  submarine  sink¬ 
ings  and  ordinary  marine  disasters  have  reached  a  total 
'of  11,827,572  tons  gross.  During  the 
same  period  shipyards  outside  the 
Central  1  Cm  pi  res  have  turned  out 
6,606,275  tons,  and  enemy  ships  have 
been  taken  over  anti  put  into  service 
to  the  extent  of  t, 589, 000.  This  leaves 
a  net  deficit  of  only  2,632,297  tons,  but 
a  further  consideration  of  the  detailed 
figures' shows  that  tins  aspect  of  the 
case  gives  an  unduly  favorable  impres¬ 
sion.  We  must  remember  that  almost 
all  available  tonnage,  both  of  enemy 
and  neutral  as  well  as  belligerent  reg¬ 
ister,  has  been  forced  into  service,  and 
no  considerable  further  additions  can 
be  expected  from  these  sources.  Further 
- . • of  the  figures  shows  that 


6,600,000  tons 
construction  ii 


This 


etc  only  slightly 
-leans  that  dur- 
period  of  in- 
trfarc,  the  net 


ing  1917,  covering  tl« 

tcnsificd  submarine  v . .  — 

deficit  was  almost  4,000,000. 
is  by  110  means  as  pleasant  a  situation 
as  a  cursory  examination  of  the  figures 
would  suggest.  The  Allies  must  tighten 
their  bells  ami  prepare  to  make  further 
sacrifices  for  food  conservation. 


•CT1UCAI.  EXPERIMENTER  (N¥) 


“Edison  Pioneers 


CHARLESTON  (SC)  AMERICAN 
April  12/  1918 

f  •  thTsubmarine. 

The  sinkings  by  submarine  seem  on  the  decline.  Last  week  the 
British  lost  8  ships,  the  French  2  and  the  Italians  1.  Tins  is  a  very 
|oW  record,  the  lowest  since  the  week  of  November  1 1  last. 

It  appears  from  the  sinkings  reported  in  the  past  two  weeks  that 
the  submarine  is  being  brought  under  control.  If  the  allied  fleet  can 
hold  the  U-boa  ts  to  the  record  of  last  week  and  the  previous  one  then 
they  can  produce  ships  much  faster  than  the  Germans  can  sink  them- 
From  these  late  reports  it  appears  the  worst  of  the  submarine  is  over. 


LOS  ANGELES  (CA)  TIMES 
April  10/  1918 

AWARD  CONTRACT  FOR .  1 


NEW  YORK  TELEGRAPH  MILWAUKEE  (Wl)  WISCONSIN  BROOKLYN  (NY)  CITIZEN 

April  11,  1918  April  24,  191B  April  14,  191B 


TO  LIVE  LONG,  BE 
CHEERFUL,  HE  SAYS 


NEW  YORK  (NY)  JOURNAL 
April  19,  1910 


WftYMr.  (IN)  NEWS 
Anril  27,  1910 


11ALLAS  (TX)  NEWS 
April  12,  1910 


I  AMERICAN  SfjRlUuikriiiiix 
DEFIED  JVINTRY  GALES 

Voyage  Across  .  Atlantic  Sue.' 
cessful^-Joins  0-Boat '  Hunt!'', 

Finished  Under  Own  Power*: 

^  l  .  _  '  ’  - '  IMS  MOINES  (JA)  NISWS 


islWBEHEAD^ 

TFJlIMFTPROGHflNI 

Name  of  Inventor  Persistently, 
Associated  With  Forthcom- 
1  ing  Appointment. 

ANOTHER  REPORT  FILED: 


Assistant  Secretaries  of  War 
Have  Presented  Findings. to • 
y\  i  tho  President. 


OAKLAND  (CA)  ENQUIRER 
April  19,  1910 


:  The  NewYork  telegraphic  report,  that,  the  Subraaruieliloat! 
;  cornaiafign'  ffiM-ark.  N.  j„  has 

|  pishth  ■  merchant  versel  for  the  EmergencyiFieet' corporation.  ' ini 
its  yards,  which,  if  the  steel  dclivery'Vtsrproniptly  made  by  the 
railroads,  will  enable  the  concern  soon  tci^iuSch  5500-ton  cargo 
carriers  at  the  rate  of  one  every  two  day^mdicates  that  the  eastern 
iprdvhave  final^lbegua  to  speed  up;,.n,;samest,  and  are  aiming 
;  to  outrival  the  Pacific  coast  shipyardsl&Meahtime,  recent  steps 
(taken  affecting  Oakland,  harbor  shipy^giye.  promise  of  much 
•greater  activity  in  tlicm  in  the  future /than -diere  has  been  in  the 
past,  and  their  past  record  for  producing:  results  was  an  eye-opener 
for  a  time  to  most- of  the  shipbuilders- oh  the' Atlantic  coast.  - 


IIEHK1MEH  (NX)  TKM3GW 
April  23,  1918 


I.JMA  (Oil)  CTEKITE 
April  23,  1910 


EDISON’S  GRANDSON,  AGE  22 
HOURS,  OWNS^fl  OoVrONL 


THOMAS  A.  EDISON 
•  BiTvSBOND  F0RH1S 
!  SECOND  GRANDSON 


DANIELS  SELLS  « 
LIBERTY  BONDS 

Edison  Also  Takes  a  Part  at 
Grand  Central. 

SECRETARY  TALKS  TO  CROWD 

Saunders  Shakes  Hands  With  Com- 
.  i  i  niulcrs  Who  Buy. 


THE  EDISON  IS  A 
MASTERPIECE 
OF  REPRODUCTION. 


WIZARD  OF  ELEOTRiOpC  GIVES  ALL 
ms'  tttwtp.  TO  ftfwF.RNMENT  W  ORK 


NEWARK  (NJ)  NEWS 


May  ?,  1918 


NEWARK  (NJ)  LEDGER 
May  07,  1918 


!  Port  Dock  Fire-Traces 
Nearly  All  ■  Eliminated  I 

Long  City  Wharf  Soon-  Wijl'  Bc  | 
Ready  for  Submarine  Boif 
■  and  Army  Uses.  ' 

Frames  .  of  Ship  No.  I  .  Now  Up! 


tJun,  and-  tho  Ion*  vtlmrf  .oriKiWaily 
[  /or.ijio  ^Ctlvlttoa 

i  jillin'K  lma  bcon.coinplctcil  ami  ecanlllnB 
l  atul  strlucaru  ura  now  boinr:  nlnced. 


remaining  fourteen^  waj 
(ho  Hhlpx  will  bc 


(ro^tlo  work  lu  now  procoedlUB.  -.Work 
hao  Jjoon  Martodron  tho.  largo  n»03H  hall 
and  ‘.tho*  field';  otflcos  atid-<ool  rooinii 


NEW  YORK  JOURNAL 
May  03,  1918 


WILL  BE  IYlEDIATQRyN?& 

1  DISPUTES 

lit  11/  Summer.; 

wlll  /licar  the  coniplaints'vj 
.rcjjrcscnUlivcs  whose  passes4o^nlrM 
shipyards  were*  laUcn  upjXccx;nyy>J 
at* the  FiohortTrcnt  Hotel  today^V-*^^ 
llcpreseiitnlives  ;  of  yarlous^radoiS 
;ia  .lhei  plants  .wi\l  request  carijs  .lo^cn-’ 
lei*-  all  ‘o,orUs.  :  jJNo •.  i>aascs;  lmvo^jcvci 
|hccn  •  gl yea;  .|^epres*eiilf lives;  1  os'critcjj 

crKjt  t  x  * ni  Vuc  ,  t  c  t_ t s 
t>  e  a  i  er^  \\  17  $  $  Kp$j Jr?  ^  5  & 


NEW  YORK  TRIBUNE 
May  15,  1918 


work.  ,j  Thoy  demand  nil  incrensudfllvo 


EDISON-OFFICIAL  SEIZED 

:  qKTTORJyalty  charge 


NEWARK  (tU)  MEWS 
Hay  29,  1910 


HUSXCA1.  TRADES  (NY ) 
May  25,  1910 


Plans  Near  Complete  ,  . 
For  Agawam  Launching 


Special  Arrangements  Made,  tc 
Carry  to  Port  Newark  Those  Who; 
Wish  to  See  Ceremjny.^  .  1 


N13-IAHK  (HI )  NMS 


New  Ship  Is  Begun  in 
Way  Where  Agawam  Lay 

It  Is  Twenty-ninth  Keel  to  Be  Laid 
at  Port  Newark  Yards— New.  • 

.  Spirit  Seen.  ■*>  J  ^ 

Schwab  Stimulates  the  Workers. 


WASHINGTON  (DC)  TIMES 
Juno  10,  1910 


PHILADELPHIA  (Pfl)  INQUIRER 
June  02,  1910 


CLEVELAND  (OH)  LEADER 
June  02,  1918 


Awards  “Wonder”  Prize 
yl®  the  Phg^ograph 


servo*  its  plucks' as  the. world's  seventh ' 
wonder.  .After  a- lapse  of  over  thirty! 
years,  from  Edhonjs 


[^'Wh$B?\impprtant  ?  >  By  it  a  new  ihu-| 
I  aleal  Sprajfla,  opened.  The  ‘  problom  of } 
:homo.is  solved;  the  creat1 
Ll^Wt&ii^b^o'ucht.. — 


A'lTi'LEDOHO  (MA)  SUN 
June  20  (?) ,  1918 


Edison-  Declares 
Luxuries  Aid  War 

“No  legitimate  Industry  Is.  nones* 

!  sentlal  except  us  It  interferes  with,  tho 
conduct  of  tho  war,  and  then' only  .to 
the  oxtent  to  .which;! V intorforos' : ‘  Nil 
itiatician.  can;  proparo^flguros  •  the 
n*  he;  accepted  safoiy;iaa:{n*  girl  (Jo  t 

o  manufacture  pf.  tho  .so^fle^-irrin::- 

“Wo  licar  a  good  doql  of  talk  about] 
luxuries.  Luxury.  Is  a  relattvo 
Wlrol  is  luxury  for  ono  man  is  : 
necessity  to*  another.  No  r 

|  earning  power  of  the  American  poople  | 
h;  goiug  to  result  in  tho  increased  pur* 
chuso  of  -luxuries,  'and  tho  urge  to 
possess  luxuries  will  do  more  to  spood  I 
up  production,  than  all  tho  prize  cou- 
iius.  plans,  and  proclamations 
bo  dovised.  Tho  Inzlost  and 
— . in  the  world 


as  u  family 

- — . -  — -  Is  endeavor¬ 

ing  to  gratify  them  Is  the  man  who  is  1 
usually  working  the  hardest,  and-  pro* , 


ts  luxuries  ai 


NEWARK  (WJ)  CA1.I. 

Juno  30.  1910 

BUILDING  LOAN 
READY  FORM! 

Local  Committee  Plans  tor  U.  S. 
League  Convention  In  Newark  ' 
About  Complete.  : 


NEWARK  ASSOCIATIONS  WORK 


CAMDEN  (NJ)  POST-TELEGRAM 


DU  I  WAK  STAMPS 
EDISON  ADVOCATES 


Inventor  Wants  10,000  Jersey-, 
seymen  to  Join  Club  to  Pur¬ 
chase  $1,000  Worth. : 


STRONG. APPEAL 

MADE  IN  LETTER. 


PHILADELPHIA  (L’A)  PUBLIC  LEDGER 
Juno  1/1,  1910 


NEWARK  (MJ)  LEDGER 
June  03,  1910 


| Luxuries  to  netp  win  war , 

I  t  Says  Thog&gJ^Edison 


June  00,  19X0 

I,  pmcppst^ 

I  «  ri«-r>  r'rvBr'ARl  i 


EXAMINER 
June  30,  1910 


Automobile* 


MANKATO  (MN)  REVIEW  MINNEAPOLIS  (MN)  JOURNAL 

June  OS;  1910  June  23,  1910 


NEW  YORK  TRIBUNE 
June  09,  1910 


WASHINGTON  (DC) 


NEW  YORK  HERALD 
Juno  13,  1910 


NEW  TOKK  WORM) 
June  27,  1910 


I  Wizard,  With  His  Son  and  a  Navy 
Expert,  Will  Establish  Head¬ 
quarters  on  Chesapeake  Bay. 


I-AI.I.  1UVEU  (HA)  C.I.OHE 
June  11,  1910 


THE  MUSIC  TRADES  (NY) 


THOMAS  A.  EDJSQN,  AMERICA’S  “WIZARD  ; 

—  HOST  TO  FAMOUS  BLUE  DEVILS  OF  FRANCE 


INDUSTRIAL  MANAGEMENT  (NY) 


1918 


YORK  JOURNAL 


BROOKLYN  (NY)  EAGLE  NEW 

July  14,  1910  July  15,  1918 


THOS.AJDMFOR  ] 
D.  S.  SENATE,  PLAN  OF'. 
JERSEY  DEMOCRATS 

Washington  Hears  of  Movomont 
and  Links  Candidacy  With 
That  of  Ford.  ^ 


ADMINISTRATION  CANDIDATE! 


NEWARK  (NJ)  NEWS 
July  12,  191B 


Warship'  Eufl  Economy.  'f\  j 

pulverized  coni  an  fuel  for'  warjhlpn  In', 
found  by  the  United  Staton  Con euU- 

1  ndafB&h 1 To  ordinary  economy,  Simple  Vdjuat- 


NEW  YORK  WORLD 

July  15,  1910 


MEW  XORK  MOULD 
July  07,  1910 


''EDISON  NOT  FOR  SENATE:' 


DRi  HUTCHISON  QUITS 
EDISON  FOR  U.  S.  WORK 

-Uf&r5=riR~ 


t  Naval  Consulting 


BOSTON  (MA)  TRAVELER 

July  11/  1910 


son  ofIdjsokT 

JOINS  TANK  CORPS 

MORRISTOWN,  N.  J-.  | 


ROME  (NY)  SENTINEL 

July  11,  1918 


f'  -'omiuHlng  Be . . 

letanlt  division  of  tl 

or  Fort  Slocum:  ' 


NEW  TORE  COMMERCIAL 
July  13,  1910 


J  HOG  ISLAND  NEAItS  CAPACITY 

"Worker*  Number  .  iW»«l  35 

Keel*  Have  Ilccu  Laid  In  sllJynrtU 


tlon,  according  ; to  Francis  T.  Howies,  1 
director,  of. operations,,  who  to-ityy  an- 


.  laid -and  that  the  number  of  workers 
'Mrl^BowlcB  sold,  Is  but  1,000  short  of  I 


the  number  of  omploycoo  Ihut  will  aol 
required  to  operate  tbo  yard  at  full  ca¬ 
pacity.  All  the  ways  nro  expected  to  I 


bo  -completed  in  August. 
Members 'of  the  SjuaUI 


NEW  YORK  ? 

July  00,  1918 

DR..  HUTCHISON  RESIGNS.  I 


RICAL  EXPERIMENTER  (NY) 


Milestones  in  the  Life  of  I  Lomas 
ijj  A. .Edison 


NEW  TOUK  MUSIC  TRADES 
ALKjunU  24,  .19.10 

INVENTION  OF  EDIPHONE  IS  CELEBRATED^ 

•:  AT  ANNIVERSARY  CONVENTION  IN  ORANGE^ 


Edison,  ^Salesmen  from  Every  Pari  of  the  Country  Meet  to  Honor  the  Great  Inventor— Mr.  Edis 


My  Experiences  Working 
for  Father 

Perhaps  they  will  be  . useful  to  other  young  men 
who  have  to  answer  the  question 
“Shall  1  or  shall  I  not  take  a  job  under  Father?” 

By  Charles  Edison j 


y  wanted  to  have  witnessed.  The  —  .. - - - 

notary  read  along  without  coni-  around  in  various  < 

ment  until  he  came  to  my -  *"*  ** ***“ 

“You’re  not  Thomas  1 
you?”  he  asked.  . 

When  I  said  that  I  was,  hi 
changed  immediately. 

“Well,”  he  laughed,  ‘M  Riles 
K**ve  to  worry  m”**M  ,r*c  ”p‘* 


NOT  long  ago,  I  went  into  the  Boston  Electric  Light  Company  and.  Krom  the  very  first  he  is  “the  son  of  his 
office  of  a  New  York  notary  niv  salary  was  fifteen  dollars  a  week.  I  dad,”  and  not  only  to  his  father  but  to 

public  with  some  papers  I  stayed  there  a  little  less  than  a  year,  mak-  everybody  around  the  place.  It  is  a  bad 

wanted  to  have  witnessed.  The  ing  an  infernal  nuisance  of  myself  poking  plan.  Even  though  he  is  going  in  with 
nntin-  r«-nfl  nlnmr  without  com-  around  in  various  departments,  but  learn-  lus  father  later,  a  boy  ought  to  take  his 
ing  a  lot  about  the  work,  and  also  learning  first  Job  with  someone  else.  Everybody, 

^  *  *  respect  for  him  if  lie  has  shown  that  be 

A/fY  FATHER  didn’t  interfere,  he  just  can  make  good  by  himself. 

let  me  go  ahead,  even  when  at  the  I'suall;-  . .  . 

.  n.._ss  you  don’t  end  of  the  year  I  started  out  with  a  father  as 
i!  It’s  prettv  soft  for  friend  to  do  a  little  traveling.  We  two  likely  to  i  . 

1  r . -  H  bovs  headed  for  the  West  with  only  a  few  the  other  is  .  ... 

ma„.  dollars  in  our  pockets.  We  paid  our  way  ideas  and  suggestions  wi 

I  smiled — but  l  Just  wished  he  could  with  odd  jobs  here  and  there,  and  finally  show*  for  *  those  of  "tin; 


m  fellows  that  ca 


I  sually  two  things  are  wrong  with  your 
.  father  as  an  employer:  One  is  that  he  is 
>  likely  to  let  you  liav 


.  ,t  wouldn’t 

whether  he  went  i 

1  think  that  is  o.. 
why  I  do  work  for  n 


ie  dollar  still  his  little  hi 

father  didn't  interfere.  Of  didn’t  let  you  get  away! 
difference  course  he  knew  I  wasn’t  loafing.  I  was  not  with  patronizing  indulge 
*  *  really  doing  much  '  ’  *  *'  '  .  . . 


*  *  Earning  a  lot  of  things  useful  to  ... 

:  of  the  chief  reasons  bov  who  goes  straight  from  school, 
r_ —  i.: . -  experience 


in  his  husi-  know  from  li 


This  whole  question  of 
working  for  father  is  a  seri¬ 
ous  problem  with  thousands 
of  young  men:  and  with 
their  “old  man”  too,  for 
rliat  matter.  1  know  how  I 
had  to  wrestle  with  it.  And 
I  also  know  that  if  Thomas 
Edison  were  like  some  fath¬ 
ers,  nothing  would  induce 

It  was  always  an  under¬ 
stood  thing  in  our  family 
that  some  day  I  was  to  go 
into  business.  But  I  never 
gave  the  matter  much 
thought  until  I  went  to  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology.  ^During  the 

there  /did  study  it  a  good 
deal,  and  I  came  to  a  defi¬ 
nite  conclusion.  Of  course  • 
I  thought  then  it  was  a  sens¬ 
ible  one,  and,  what  is  more 
important,  I  still  think  so. 

When  I  was  graduated 
and  my  father  said  some¬ 
thing  about  my  taking  a  job 
under  him,  1  told  him  I*' 
thought  I’d  like  to  work 
.somewhere  else  for  a  while. 
Right  there  he  showed  his 
wisdom.  Instead  of  arguing 
with  me,  he  said,  “  All  right! 
Go,  ahead.”  He  didn’t  even 

me.  He  let  me  corral  one 
<<ir  myself.  It  was  with  the 


•,  normal  business  relations  ai 


*n  though  I  had,  1  know  from  observa¬ 
nt  that  if  lie  had  been  like  manv  men 


Thomas  A.  Edison’s  Son 
Denies  That  His  Father 
Really  “Works” 

•piIAUUU”  EDISON  writes  of  his  father  as 
follows: 

44 Father  spends  all  day  and  most  of  the  night 
on  his  machines  and  problems.  But,  for  all  that, 
1  don't  know  that  lie  ever  really  ‘works.’  He  is 
simply  having  a  good  time.” 

A  volume  of  truth  in  that!  Edison  works 
wilhout  noticing  it,  because  lie  is  so  interested. 
Lots  of  men  enjoy  their  work  enormously,  but 
very  few  in  the  world  approach  the  degree  of 
interest  and  enjoyment  that  Edison  has  attained. 

There  is  another  point  about  Edison:  His 
tremendous  enthusiasm  over  bis  work  probably 
accounts,  parlly  at  least,  for  his  popularity. 
People  like  an  enthusiast — providing  he  is  in¬ 
telligent  and  a  real  producer.  Whenever  I  read 
about  Edison  working  twenty  hours  a  day  I  feel 
like  writing  him: 


.  I  w 


a  that  of  making  a 
dail,  and  also  of  making  him 

ness.  Luckily  for  me,  Thom¬ 
as  Edison  has  more  sense 

1  remember  the  first  job 
he  gave  me  when,  after  five 
months  in  Sun  Francisco,  1 
came  hack  to  work  for  him. 
Of  course,  I  wanted  to  make 
a  good  showing;  but  when 
he  asked  me  to  figure  the 
cost  of  some  disk  records 
my  heart  sank.  I  was  an 
electrical  engineer,  and  this 
'  -  a  job  for  an 


that  the  relation  between  us 
affected  my  standing  in  the  : 
company,  I  might  as  well  ' 


NEWARK  (NJ)  LEDGER 
October  11,  1910 


|  BUG-BEE  SAYS.EDISON  SPURNeS^. 

|  OFFER  OF  U.  S.  SENATE  NOMINATION^ 


NEW  YORK  JOURNAL 
QcLober  15/  1910 


Navy  Department,  Waahlnjjtor 


HANNlDAt,  (HO)  COURIER— POST 
QcLober  04,  19.10 


would  do  mucli  to 


ablcT to*H*jarn  ^n-SlntT  oC  partlcu* 

soclniJ^i  In  St  Louis.  last  wook  Gov. 
Chas.  II.  ^Brough. .•  of  ^Arkansas,  ^an- 

shfpa ^hldlAvoul d  dotoct  a  Bubniarlno 


OcLoboc  02 t  1910 

/  The  Wizard,  Uncle  Sam  and  the  Kaiser 

Thomas  A.  Edison,  the  Wizard  of  Electricity,  mi 
a  point*  i»fo nriecBWWHh  the  Fourth  Liberty  I 
which  is  worthy  of  consideration.  It.  has  been  toil 
us  before  in  .different  words,  but  clothed  in  the 
guage  of  the  great  inventor  it  goes- straight  to 
bull’s-eye.  .  He  says: 

“With  Uncle  Sam  winning  you* will,  have  more  me 
in  the  end  than  if  the  Kaiser  got  over  here.  The  1 .  .. 

citizens’  pocketbooks  arc  the  real  .Treasury,  of  thej 
United  States,  and  this  war  cannot  be  won  unless  they 
aro  kept  wide  open.” 

The  Wizard  knows  what  lie  is  talking  about.  Most 


re  felt  the  effects  of  the  \v 


mind  thafc^we  will  have  mo 
if  the  KaiseSgot  oVer  here.’ 


3  in  well-doing, 
o  money  in  the 


r  f.a  victims.— Palmyra  I 


NEW  YORK  TRIBUNE 

CD  mwJ 


HARVEY  II.' GREEN 

41  1 IJJ*-  B|xty.four,yonrB 

r«nB°.  ' J*  n“®,  ,  tj,0  (jrancoft  for 

W 'dauRhtor*  find  cnn  «»»'• 


.  Harvey  H.  Cffaeji 


Harvey  H.  Green  Dies;  Paymaster 
For  Eighteen  Lears  at  Edison  s 


n,  anil  had  lived) 

M.  la  survived* 

Newark- Lortae  No.  t.  V.  and  A.  X 


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Clippings  (1919) 

These  clippings  cover  the  year  1919.  Most  of  the  items  are  taken  from 
newspapers,  but  there  are  several  longer  magazine  articles  as  well.  Some  of 
the  articles  pertain  to  Edison's  recording  of  a  personal  phonograph  message 
marking  the  end  of  the  war— reportedly  the  first  time  that  the  inventor  had 
ever  allowed  his  voice  to  be  recorded.  There  are  also  clippings  about  his 
summer  camping  trip  in  the  Adirondacks  with  Henry  Ford,  John  Burroughs, 
and  Harvey  S.  Firestone,  including  accounts  of  their  visit  to  the  new  Ford  • 
Tractor  Factory  in  Green  Island,  New  York,  and  interviews  with  the  press 
where  Edison  expressed  his  opinions  about  the  League  of  Nations  and  other 
issues  relating  to  postwar  political  and  economic  reconstruction.  Other 
clippings  concern  the  deaths  of  traffic  manager  John  T.  Rogers  and  former 
associates  Philip  S.  Dyer  and  Frederick  Sargent;  efforts  to  promote  the 
phonograph;  and  the  initiation  of  "Americanization"  classes  for  the  foreign 
employees  of  Thomas  A.  Edison,  Inc. 

In  addition,  there  are  numerous  clippings  about  Charles  Edison, 
including  his  promotion  to  general  manager  of  TAE  Inc.  following  the 
resignation  of  Carl  H.  Wilson,  his  announcement  of  a  new  management 
strategy  to  prevent  labor  unrest,  arid  his  appointment  as  treasurer  of  the 
National  Social  Unit  Organization.  Also  included  is  a  long  letter  from  Frank  J. 
Sprague  disputing  the  claim  that  Edison  invented  and  perfected  the  electric 
railway,  as  well  as  clippings  about  Henry's  Fords  libel  suit  against  the  Chicago 
Tribune. 

Approximately  20  percent  of  the  clippings  have  been  selected.  In 
addition  to  numerous  duplicate  versions  of  most  of  the  stories,  the  unselected 
items  include  clippings  about  the  death  of  Theodore  Roosevelt;  Henry  Ford's 
testimony  in  the  libel  case;  prohibition;  and  Bolshevism. 

A  small  amount  of  additional  material  for  1919  can  be  found  in  Cat. 
44,516  in  the  Scrapbook  Series.  Newspaper  articles  and  other  documents 
pertaining  to  Charles  Edison's  role  in  the  Liberty  Loan  and  Victory  Loan 
campaigns,  1917-1919,  can  be  found  in  four  unselected  scrapbooks  (Cat. 
44,511,  Cat.  44,512,  Cat.  44,513,  and  Cat.  44,514)  at  the  Edison  National 
Historic  Site. 


DKOCKTON  (HA)  ENTERPRISE 
Januacy  02,  1919 


NEW  YORK  'JRIDUNE 
Januacy  20,  19.19 


CONVERSE  IN  MORSE  CODE. 

ThornM.A^Eahon^nd  • 


know  bow  dont  tho  Inventor  really 
la,  wondoroil  nt  Uio  nuccoaa  with  which 
'io  presided  vfUon  til"  nnw  naval  con* 


tbo°Nwl  Danlota;  j 
ho  hoard  llUlo  that  wan  anld.  hot  ho 
proaldcd  ahcccBatully  liocauao  ^ 
olatant  Mr.  Mlllor  It.  Iiutchlo^Uopt ; 
!hlm  Intormod  of  ovorythlns-by  moans 
of  n  telegraphing  flogir  tip  Umt; 

,  touched  Mr.  Edisou’s?  bn™  under  uto 

! *“x?fo’w  iyoanrOBnlfr.  IluUSisoh  ft” 
a  victim^  tho  whooping  cough  niK 

And  so.  whon  tho  Invontor  wont  to 
Washington  to  prcsldo  ovor  too^doo- 

tapped  to^Mr.  ^Edison  everything  that 

mcosagon  to  Mr.  Edison  nt  tho  rato  of- 
thirty  words  a  inlnuto,  and,  ns  ino 
Bpooohes  wore  delivered  j”  *^3  able 

| nda^Wlth 'thorn  a 

I  tiro  toor0fardnpnrt  for  tho  flngor-top* 
ping  mothod.— Youth’s  Compnnlou. 


Former  Colony  Club 
To  Become  a  Home 
For  Working  Girls 


Once  Gathering  Place  of  the 
City’s  Most  Aristocratic 
Women  anil  Owned  hy 
Mrs.  Nicholas  Brady 


.  #  jr  -wieitolmi  •  Brady,  ino  pteB'otit 
owner  of  tho  famous  old  Colonlnl  Build* 
Ing,  at  120  Madison  Avenue,  is  having 
quarters  for  thirty 
'o  a  cafeteria  whore 


$40 o', 000.  During  the  wi 


1  needy  pojiulit 


re  nmdo  for  the 


headquarters  f 


minor  organizations  of  n  similar  chrtr- 
mcnian  Itollcf  Committee. 

Last  nummor  the  swimming  pool  and 
mh\  furn1shodSpicnsuro0 for  hundreds  of 
Hod  Cross  workers  passing  through 
Now  York  on  thoir  way  to  France. 

The  Colony  Club -  *“  ,0< 


.  was  opened  in 
t  attracted  much  nt 


ro  hejd  there, 
sumptuous  quarters 
new  $000,000  build1"* 
■and  Park  Avenue. 


$000,000  building  nt  Sixtieth  Street: 


LOWWELL  (MA)  COURIER-CITIZEN 
January  03 >  1919 


HOLYOKE  (MA)  TRANSCRIPT 
January  03,  1919 


CHICAGO  (IL)  ELECTRICAL 
REVIEW 


Organization  of  the  Men  Connected  With  Thomas  A 
Edison  ill  Invention  and  Development  Prior  to  1886. 

All  organization  was  cfiecteil  in  1918  known  a: 
Edison  I'ioiu'L’i'S,  Hie  object  of  which  is  to  bruit'  hi 
nether  tile  men  who  were  associateil  with  Thomas  A 
Edison  hi  his  earlier  work  of  invention  anit'TntpSff 
mentation  ami  to  perpetuate  the  memories  of  those 
pioneer  days.  The  membership  of  the  Edison  Pioneer 
is  limited  to  persons  associated  with  Mr.  Edison  01 
connected  with  his  work  prior  to  and  inclusive  of  tin 
year  1885.  The  officers  of  this  association  arc  a: 
follows: 

President,  Francis  R.  Upton. 


Among  the  nirmhiTship,  comprising  about  one 
hundred  persons,  arc  the  following;  well-known  elec¬ 
trical  men,  in  addition  to  the  ollicers  named:  Dr.  ltd- 
ward  ti.  Aehcsnn.  \V.  S.  Andrews,  John  I.  lteggs,  C. 
A.  1  teuton,  C.  S.  ltradlev.  Col.  II.  M.  Itylleshy.  Charles 
I..  Edgar,  Charles  I..  Kidlitz,  W.  E.  Gilmore,  Edwin 
T.  t ireenlield,  lohn  W.  Howell.  Wm.  J.  Hammer,  F. 
S.  Hastings,  Samuel  Instill,  Alfred  W.  Kiddle.  J.  VV. 
I.ieb,  lien.  F.  Morrison,  Frederic  Nicholls,  John  G. 
till.  Charles  U.  Price.  Louis  Kail,  Frederick  Sargent, 
Charles  Wirt,  Edwin  K.  Weeks  and  Dr.  S.  S.  Wheeler. 


NEWARK  (NJ)  LEUGER 
January  18/  19X9 


FUTURE  OF  SAVAGE 

ARMS  DISCUSSED 

'EDISON  PURCHASED 
i  TO  THE  LIMIT, 

I  Tho  now  war  slayings  stamps  cam- 1 
IjuutinwhlcU  oponod  Friday  started 

Distribution  ot  Common  Stack 
-yEarnings  ot  Company. 

SlocUholilcrs  ot  tlio  Ehvi-bo  Anns 

1  ''.M['".roUiffli-"Wt  farmed  n  comltflWpn 
to?  tlio  purpose^ DC  oblnlnliijf  »  Otatrl-. 

twelve  northern  counties  of  Now  Jer¬ 
sey  and  Falrflold  county,  Connecti¬ 
cut,  comprising  tlio  Sooond  Federal 
.  Hcseryo  District,  all  bought  hoavlly 
l  of  tho  baby,  government  securities.-  v 

Lisgst  u 

“MKJHOmUWII  -  GKHEUAI." 

MEWftUK  (NJ)  STAR— KftBI.E 
February  03 ,  1919  (») 


MIM  yoitK  [lKUAUj 
February  02,  J.9.1.9 _ (U) 


Edison  Talks  vNJ 
on  War  to  a  i 
Phonograph, 


[First  Slulcuicnt  on  War| 
lies  l:irst  Utterance  lo 


mch 


iinc  lie  Invented. 


Wiioho graph  Record? 
Mr.  Edison’s  Voici 


WESl'EHM  (lO)  SUM 
February  02,  1319  (») 


EDISON’S  OWN  VOICE  1 
-OlT'rRE'PHONOGUAPH 


■dison^in  His  ,  First 
^Phonograph  Record, 
n  /  Lauds  U.  S.  Soldier 


V  THOMAS  141)180 N'ft  V  M ’ATI  ON. 

Thomas  Edison  bus,  gone  nPTluriih 
out  is  news.  .it  is  (lie  t'lrsVyiiciilfinr  I  he  groat  inventor  Inis  taken  since 
e  beginning  of  (ho  war. 

seventy-two  years  old.  Hut  ho  denies  that  he  is  an  old 
>us,  has  perfect  control  of  his  hudy  auil  can  work  more 
nost  young  men.  Ilia  brain  is  still  clear  ami  capable, 
e  at  I  bo  bead  of  tin;  world’s  wonder-workers.  The  war, 

11  to  genius,  produced  n»  greater  nor  more  capable  iu- 
ouderful  old  American. 

II  has  always  been  “a  whale  for  work,”  applying  him- 

pi  himself  in  good  physical  condition,  lie  has  lived  a 
excesses  of  every  clmmuler,  mental  as  well  us  physical. 
>ut  he  does  not  worry  or  harniss  himself  with  trifles, 
ntng  mau  because,  while  doing  an  immense  amount  of . 
shing  wonderful  scientific  mechanical  achievements,  ho ; 
and  mindful  of  his  nerves. 

i  health  and  strength',  while  one  of  the  best  of  Edison’s  | 
been  (lie  least  difficult  of  accomplishment.  He  had j 
natural  inelinaiion  toward  decent  habits,  keep  himself 
a  disposition  lo  look  upon  life  cheerfully.  Almost  any  j 


him  at  right  angles  to  Ills  body 
nml  kicked  with  each  foot  in  tun 
his  toes  touched  Ills  finger  tl(i 
Rotting  old,”  tmhl  the  Inventor 
|imd  assembled  h 

talning  anothc 
Tomorrow  ho 
Florida  for  a  si 
war  activities  o 


behalf  of  tl 


1C  TRADE 
1919 

EDISON’S  VOICE 

COItDED  ON  A  l’llONOtatAl’Il 


OKLAHOMA  (OK)  OKLAHOMAN 
February  .10,  1919 

“Go  Ahead,"  Edison 
I  Says  to  Business 


NEW 


W0U1.1) 


KVI3UNG  SUN 


Februory  14,  1919 


February  11/  1919 


“VICTORY  DlIEr 
!S  A  TARGET  N0W| 

Opposition  to  Festivity  Thjt  Is . 
to  Cost  $100  a  Plato  and"' 
Is  Engineered  by  | 

Lieut.  Mallow.  j 

1 1 . — - 

EVERY'  GUEST  PROMISED  | 

.  HIS  PICTURE  IN  MENU. 

Sentiment  for  It  Great,  Says 
Sponsor,  blit  Hotel  Review 
Editor  Tells  oi  Objections,  j 


Edison  Is  72  Years  Old 

Birthday  Finds  Him  Speeding  South  on  First 
Vacation  He  Has  Permitted  Himself 
Since  the  War  Began.  j 

|  Thomas  A.  Edison,  with  ^scores  of  remarkable  inventions 
!  still  in  his^magician’sKSTfifuf  how,  among,  many  other  things, 
engaged  in  planning  lines  of  research  for  his  great  laboratories 
for  tho  next  hundred  years,  enters  to-day  upon  his  seventy- 
second  year  vigorous  in  the  faith  that  he,  “a  middle  aged  man,” 
has  much  of  his  biggest,  most,  imporl.aitta.wBrK* b‘6f6r-e4lini. 


„„r  our  mg  men  joecome  ^ 
Boys  Again 

Thomas  A.  Edison,  aged  71  John  Burroughs,  aged  81 
Henry  FofaT"^  aged  55  H.  S.  Firestone,  aged  49 

The  story  of  a  ten-days  vacation  they  .took  together  . 

By  Mary  B.  Mullett 

[JR  big  men  set  out  last  sum-  burgh  it  included  three  passenger  aiitomo- 
er  for  two  weeks  of  play  to-  biles,  three  trucks,  and  fourteen  persons.  In 


roughs, 
each  of  them  a  : 

"“if  they  had  been  little  men-little  in  They  wcre  ten  days  mail 


burgh  it  included  chreepassenger  automo- 
already  named 
there  were  also  Mr.  Firestone's  son,  two  or 
three  friends,  a  chef  and  various  assistants. 
The  route  was  down  through  XVestVirginia, 
Virginia,  and  North  Carolina,  to  Asheville. 


anything  went 
wrong  with  one  of  the  machines,  he 
would  take  oft  his  coat  and  work  for 
hours,  if  necessary,  to  make  the  repairs. 
He  could  do  wonders  with  a  piece  of 
string.  If  they  came  upon  another  m 


„us  experiment.  Each  of  them 
customed  to  the  deference  which  goes 
with  leadership.  Each  was  used  to  having 
his  own  way.  Three  of  them  were  men 
of  great  wealth,  familiar  with  luxury. 
They  did  not  have  even  the  common  bond  I 
of  age,  for  Burroughs  was  eighty-one,  i 
Edison  seventy-one,  Ford  fifty-five,  and  i 
Firestone  forty-nine. 

It  is  evident  that  two  weeks  of  con¬ 
stant  association  among  such  men  might 
easily  develop  all  kinds  of  jealousies  and 
irritations.  Yet  these  four  came  through 
the  experience  with  their  friendship  deep¬ 
ened  and  enriched  by  it. 

If  you  want  to  probe  beneath  the  sur¬ 
face  and  get  at  a  man's  real  character, 
watch  him  when  he  is  at  play.  The  way 

rules.  But  when  he  plays  he  is  like  a 
horse  out  of  harness.  He  can  strike  his 
own  gait.  Study  him  and  see  how  he  uses 


under  any  roof  but  the  canvas  of  their 
tents.  From  Asheville  they  motored  back 
(but  without  camping  at  night),  making 
a  total  of  two  thousand  three  hundred 


sted  in  the  human  contact,  the  men  and 
•omen  and  children  of  the  little  hamlets 
nd  the  lonely  farms.  He  had  with  him  a 


T7DIS0N-.vas  the  dominant  figure  of  the 
i-J  group.  There  is  an  innate  power  in  his 
personality  to  which  the  others  gave  un¬ 
questioning  recognition.  Yet  Burroughs 
-  .u — —  w||<mt  they  showed  a 


supply  of  crisp  new  bills,  and 
tioular  ^delight  was  in  using 

smile  on  the  faces  of  barefoot  boys  and 
girls  in  return  for  some  service. 

To  a  certain  extent,  they  foraged  oil' 
the  country,  paying  so  generously  for 
what  they  got  that  some  of  the  natives 
are  probably  still  trying  to  recover  from 
the  shock.  As  business  manager  of  the 
trip,  Firestone  had  charge  of  this  detail, 
and  the  emissaries  he  sent  out  had  orders 
*  rket  price — pli  _ 


"rontS^nl^giri  timidly 
brought  them  a  pail  of  apples  as  a  gift. 
Mr.  Ford,  on  the  theory  that  one  good 
tum  deserves  another,  produced  one  of 
his  crisp  new  bills;  and  when  the  child 
had  recovered  her  powers  of  locomotion 
she  almost  ran  her  little  legs  off  in  her 
eagerness  to  show  her  fortune  to  her 
father  and  mother.  Then  came  the  pleas¬ 
ing  finale  of  the  incident;  for  instead  of 
seeing  in  the  strangers  a  chance  for  some 


his  freedom.  ... 

The  thing  these  men  chose  to  do  with 
their  playtime  is  a  good  side  light  on 
their  character.  Instead  of  loahng  in 
easy  chairs,  or  touring  where  roads 


easy  chairs,  or  touring  wnerc  roam, 
good  and  hotels  luxurious,  they  struck 
out  for  the  by-ways  of  a  difficult  mountain 
*  ,.  They  slcpr  ? - ‘ 


\ 


like  to  think.  Sometimes  we  wanner  nt 
after  all,  we  arc  as  democratic  as  we  like 
to  say  we  are.  But  when,  as  now,  we  can 
catch  a  few  of  our  big  men  off  their  guard, 
just  being  themselves  .nt  play,  and  can 
find  that. they  are,  above  every thing  else, 
simple  and  friendly  and  kind— which  is 
the  essence  of  democracy— we  may  .sit 
back  with  a  sigh  of  satisfaction. 

When  the  caravan  started  from  Pitts-  i 


placed  him  at  the  head  or  tne  raine. 

Among  the  .wonderful  pictures  made  by 
a  photographer  whom  Mr.  Firestone  took1 
with  them,  some  of  which  are  reproduced 
here  for  the  first  time,  is  one  of  1  homas 
Edison  presenting  Burroughs  with  a  little 
bouquet  of  wild  flowers  which  the  great 
wizard  of  science  had  picked  by  the  way- 
side.  I  have  seen  another  picture,  made 
on  the  Adirondack  trip,  showing  Edison 
and  Burroughs  down  on  their  hands  and 
knees  in  a  gravel  heap  examining  and 
discussing  the  evidences  of  glacial  erosion. 

Edison,  the.  man  whose  life  is  centered  . 

'SSia  mSudt™:  .  QNE  day  as  .h.y  ^  .W 
ders  of  nature.  Birds,  flowers,  stones,  he  1 1  ^ ^ j !j ” *$“}}  ” 

knows  them  and  their  secrets.  A  mem¬ 
ber  of  the  parry  told  me  that  Edison  was 
the  most  widely  informed  man  he  had 
ever  met;  that  there  was  not  a  subject 
on  which  the  great  inventor  could  not 
talk  with  intelligent  interest.  He  was  the 


seeing  in  the  strangers  a  chance  for  some 
judicious  grafting,  the  father  came  down, 
•bringing  a  pail  of  home-made  cider,  which 
he  begged  them  to  accept  as  the  only 
token  of  hospitality  he  had  to  offer.  One 
likes  to  think  of  this  mutual  kindliness, 
|  which  runs  like  a  bright  thread  through 
.  the  whole  story  of  those  days  of  simple 


piled. out  and  proceeded  to  denionstrat 
that  they  had  not  forgotten  their  boyhooo 
farm  davs.  The  man  yielded  his  old- 
fashioned  implement  to  this  queer  trium¬ 
virate  with  a  smile  of  amusement,  which 
it  turned  to-respect,  however,  when  they 
y  cradled  and  tied  his  oats  in  a  workman- 
-  like  manner.  When  the  cars  finally  drove 
Vis  emotions  had  taken  still  another 


if- 


Four 


income  Boys  Again 


„  -  hills  and  explore  the  neighborhood.  When 

vt«o|/  i.vit  «...  w.  «  denomination  with  they  did  not  do  this,  Ford  would  get  hold 
which  he  had  enjoyed  little  enough  of  of  the  camp  ax  and  chop  wood,  just  for 
previous  acquaintance.  the  exercise. 

.  *.  Each  of  the  four  had  a  separate  tent, 

AT  NIGHT,  camp  was  always  pitched  with  cots,  mattresses,  and  plenty  of 
near  a  spring  or  some  clear  mountain  blankets.  The  nights  were  so  cold  in  the 
stream;  generally  at  about  five  o’clock,  mountains  that  sometimes  they  threw  out 

for  there  was  plenty  of  work  to  be  ac-  the  cots  and  put  their  m“~ - 

complished  by  the  <fcrew.”  Burroughs’s  r - '*  1  . K  l" 

Was  put  up  first,  as  he  was  usually  i 
after  the  day’s  ride.  His  evening  i 


Sometimes  they  would  sit  until 

_ _ _ B  _ 0„.  around  the  camp  fire,  for  Edi- 

had  to  1>e  an  early  and  plain  son  is  an  inveterate  story-teller.  Neither 
ng  his  habit.  So,  after  a  Ford  nor  Burroughs  smokes.  Edison  and 
of  toast  and  hot  water,  he  Firestone  do;  but  they  did  not  produce 
i,  and  by  the  time  the  rest  their  cigars  until  evening.  #  .... 
were  sitting  down  to  a  hearty  supper  he  Not  a  drop  of  liquor  was  included  in 
would  usually  be  sound  asleep.  the  commissary.  Burroughs  and  Ford 

Edison  took  some  storage  batteries  with  djank  nothing  but  water.  Edison  and 
him  and  wires  were  run  from  one  of  these  Firestone  took  nothing  stronger  than 
to  all  the  tents,  lighting  them  with  elec-  coffee.  Edison  liked  an  occasional  bottle 
tricity.  Another  was  connected  with  a  of  “pop.”  But  good,  pure,  spring  water 
searchlight  which  illuminated  the  camp-,  was  the  usual  beverage  of  them  all. 
ing  site.  Edison  was  never  ready  to  stop/ '  In  the  morning  they  were  up  about  six- 
going;  but  when  he  was  forced  to  do  so?  thirty;  and  Ford,  who  believes  as  strongly 
lie  would  immediately  begin  to  read.  Ford  in  cold  water  for  external  use  as  he  does 
always  wanted  to  start  off  on  a  tramp;  in  hot  water  for  internal  consumption, 
and  he  and  Firestone  would  climb  the  would  take  his  soap  aljd  towel  to  the 


creek  and  do  his  splashing  there.  The 
three  others  would  wash,  also  in  cold 
water,  at  a  folding  camp-table.  Then, 
while  they  were  waiting  for  breakfast, 
they  would  practice  shooting  at  a  mark; 
all  except  Mr.  Edison.  And  Burroughs, 
in  spite  of  his  more  than  four-score  years, 
proved  himself  quite  as  *-be  rest 

it  this  diversion.  It  wi 


■pREAKFAST  consisted  of  oranges  or 
U  bananas,  cereal,  eggs,  toast,  coffee  for 
two,  and  hot  water  for  two.  While  they 
were  eating  in  the  dining  tent,  which  was 
open  at  both  ends,  the  cook  was  preparing 
sandwiches,  fried  chicken,  or  something 


else  good  and  “filling”  for  their  luncheon. 
Armed  with  this  provision  against  hunger, 

the  passenger  ca - ,J  - 1 — A 

leaving  the  truck.  . 

The  first  day  oi 


vided,  it  being  the  expectation  that  the 
trucks  would  come  along  and  furnish  it 
at  the  proper  time.  But  something  hap¬ 
pened  to  the  commissary  department  and 
it  failed  to  show  up.  Rather  than  go  to  a 
hotel  for  their  noon  meal,  the  party  went 
hungry.  They  had  nothing  to  cat  from 
8  a.  M.  until  after  7  p.  M.;  but  they  were 
game  and  stuck  it  out.  -After  that,  they 
took  their  lunch  with  them,  stopping  by 
the' road  to  build  a  camp  fire  and  make 
some  coffee  and  to  heat  water. 

Edison  generally  had  some  chocolate 
nut  bars  with  him,  that  being  his  favorite 
form  of  candy.  And  once  Mr,  Burroughs 
had  the  satisfaction  of  getting  a  box  of 
his  favorite,  caramels.  It  was  short-lived 
ioy,  however,  for  when  Mr.  Ford  saw  the 
box  he  declared  it  was  not  fit  food  for  a 
man  of  eighty  and  unceremoniously  threw 
it  away.  To  the  rest  of  the  party,  Bur¬ 
roughs  was  like  a  fragile  and  precious  be¬ 
longing,  to  be  guarded  with  the  utmost 
care.  It.  was  an  extraordinary  test  of  the 
endurance  of  a  man  of  eighty,  but  he  came 
through  it  in  fine  shape. 

In  one  way,  it  was  not  the  simple  ex¬ 
cursion  they  had  planned.  Before  they 
had  fairly  started  it  turned  into  a  sort  of 
triumphal  progress.  The  telephone  had 
preceded  them  even  in  the  most  out-of- 
the-way  places;  and  the  wires  carried  the 
news  of  their  coming  to  every  town  and 
hamlet  along  their  route.  The  result  was 
that  they  were  always  being  met  by  com¬ 
mittees  of  leading  citizens  and  escorted 
into  a  town,  wrapped  in  dust  and  glory— 
neither  of  which  they  enjoyed.  Their 
cars  were  surrounded  by  people  begging 
for  speeches,  for  autographs.  They  were 
never  asked  for  money,  however,  except 
in  one  place  where  they  were  invited  to 
contribute  to  the  local  patriotic  fund. 

All  this  part  of  it  was'  a  tedious  bore  to 
Edison. .  Me  had  not  cone  off  “playing” 
in  order  to  be  met  by  oands  and  commit¬ 
tees  and  to  be  importuned  to  burst  into 
oratory.  He  liked  friendliness,  but  lie  was 
restive  under  curiosity  and  adulation. 
Speeches  he  would  not  make.  When  he 
had  to  do  something  or  else  appear  to  be  a 


grouch,  he  would  get  up  in  his  automobile 
and  smile  and  bow  to  .  the  crowd.  He 
would  sign  his  name  in  that  wonderful, 
strong,  individual  chirography  of  his.  But 
Vvhen  a  curious  crowd  gathered,  if  lie 
tould  get  a  newspaper  and^ retire  behind. 


"PHONOGRAl’II  -  GENERAL" 

NBMDURG  (Mlf)  NEWS 
Ha  cell  14,  1919  (U) 

CHALMERS,  Donald,  YOUNG,  .Jolm,  HAIUGOLD  yUAR'.ITTlTR 


SQUIH  PEND  (IN)  TOIIIUME 
March  01.  1919 


SPOKANE  (WA) 
SPOKESMAN  REVIEW  j 
March  02,  1919 


fEDISOJ 


EDISOH  W0Q1P  LIVE  10  1 

I  ,<,p 


|  Trade  BoartT*Arranges  for  Ex¬ 
pert;;  to  Speak  :jqif'“Labpr; 

.  -.Problerijs  of"Rr^sent.i’>?, ; 

|;. In»itttUOAaio*gtt'ona..tlio: mootlnit  of  • 

it  CO  /o -Bo,  M.  •  c,1;  A.Yon.  I 

I rimrtBlsv;. oftornomiWot  itolos  issqpf 
rto  'tticv.m^nbcciihEQ/'tUio.  .Boiirdpt 

"nulo:  today.  .bTh  o'pri  ncl  1*0.1  ■  snooker i 
l  o  n  cunt:  TUI  b  'Ip  I  j  1,  ; 

to  hits  'choree.  Hof  'f,*~  »-■* - -  1 

n  forth©'  TJyjr*- 


p  r  om  p  tly”  about 

j  hjff  ImcciJ  ft”!! 

PUicha«*ngdpow 


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gjj*  to°  shrewd  and  t 

m a MfST  the  bSjcVn&a^aSrlnS'*  S?  7f 

Sfi^fonagy  j?; 


i*hlp-oJiripc  co 


I  l  u;o  lone  dealt  tci  U.  f...  My  u,‘m’ 

“ill  k««Vm>“hSl,o  ''  '  AjWWBn 

tlio.jiest  .ImniatfoSSrii'  *“» 


MINNEAPOLIS  (HN) 
JOURNAL 
March  13,  1919 


(My)  GEODE 
,  1919 


mew  yoRK  (My)  iieiw.d 
Mnrcli  11,  .191.9 


MEW  yORK 
March  31, 


Mr.  Philip  Sidney  Dyer 
IWaut^mer  Tnd  .Corporation 

Official,  Dies  at  62 

, One-Time  \>s..ri;il<!  "f  iliom:»s 
Hdisi'ti  I  l:ul  Kcpnscnlc.1 


FIRST  NIGHT LAUNCHING  | 
AT  SMMAJSJME  YARDS 

NpwXitKr RnTTchTl.^V  nccrc  o( 
.■.■Mii’i'blinhtf  -will'  plclt  out  the  spot 

ontiroiiMlvy  will  he  liumchol  to-nlRht 


HUL-EAI.O  (Ny)  COUIUEU 
Maccli  27,  1919 


BUSINESS  MEN  CURIOUS  AS  t 
TO  CUTLER’S  'ADDRESS  ON 
GOVERNMENT.  -  OWNERSHIP 

Buffalo  Man  in  Close  Touch  ’  Willi  Affairs  to  Address 
Advertising  Affijliation  Tomorrow 

'ifSigf- 


practical  ui 
competent  •  speakers’  I 

. j»  In  ter  oh  tiui;  talk  1 

...«  Sales  .  Management"  , a 

William  .Maxwell,  vice  president  . 

. 


Cl 


,.v  The  Art  of  Living  Long 

IVe  nre  always  rending  reviews  nr  new  books,  so  let  us 
write  a  review  ot  a  very  old  one — "The  Art  of  Living  Long," 
by  Louis  Cornnro. 

Comoro  was  born  in  Venice  in  L1G2  ot  rich  and  noble 
family.  Ho  inherited  a  weak  constitution,  yet  like  most  Ital¬ 
ians  of  his  time  and  class,  ho  partook  to  his  fill  of  rare  wines 
and  rich  foods  until  his  fortieth  year.  Then  he  was  given  up 
by  his  physicians  to  die. 

Ho  conceived  a  simple  plan  cf  living  that  quickly  re¬ 
stored  him  to  full  health,  with  a  serenity  of  mind  that  had 
been  unknown  to  him,  so  ho  wrolo  this  book  for  the  benefit 
of  his  own  and  coming  generations.: 

Cornnro  died  peacefully  at  lbs  age  of  103  years — aftei 
having  been  given  up  by  his  physieims  to  die  at  40,  mind  you 

Diets  and  health  pursuits  arc  generally  as  complex  anc 
absorbing  as  chons,  but  Comoro's  method  was  so  simple  that 
it  has  seemingly  escaped  all  except  a  few. 

Thomas  A.  Edison  is  a  follower  of  Comoro's  plan  ot  liv¬ 
ing,  so.is'"HCTTy*Ford,  so  is  John  II.  Patterson  of  the  Nations 
Casli  Register  Co. 

All  of  these  men  are  the  most  active  in  their  respective 
institutions,  and  all,  with  the  exception  of  Henry  Ford,  an 
advanced  in  years. 

“The  Art  of  Living  Long”'  is  in  the  form  of  four  dis 
courses — the  first  written  by  the  author  at  the  age  of  83 
the  second  at  8G,  the  third  at  01  and  the  last  at  95. 

Most  particularly  docs  lie  emphasize  the  value  of  tin 
later  years  of  life  as  compared  to  that  of  the  earlier.  By  tin 
time  men  have  acquired  the  knowledge  and  experience  neccs 
sary  to  fullest  citizenship  he  says,  they  have  become  physi¬ 
cally  infirm  and  unable  to  exercise  it,  and  all  by  reason  o: 
tlieir  unnatural  manner  of  living.  . 

As  Cornaro  expressed  it:  “I  never  knew  the  world  wa: 
beautiful  until  I  reached  old  age.” 

Comoro's  rules  for  living  pertain  mostly  to  eating. 

Eat  what  you  want,  or  rather  what  agrees  with  you,  bu 
do  not  eat  much  of  it,  is  about  the  summing  up  of  liis  wholi 
doctrine.  '  - 

He  docs  not  say  what  to  eat,  nor  how  much,  these  bciiq 
a  matter  ot  individual  requirements,  as  a  man  can  be  perfee 
physician  only  to  himself. 

He  says  that  he  found  fish,  raw  salads  and  fruit  agree 
able  to  the  taste,  but  disagreeing  in  the  matter  of  digestion 
that  as  he  was  a  very  small  man  he  found  12  ounces  of  foot 
a  day  sufficient,  but  that  a  larger  man  might  require  more 

Cornaro  does  say  that  after  adopting  his  new  manner  o: 
living  he  never  fully  satisfied  his  appetite. 

At  his  78tli  year,  Cornaro  narrates  that  his  family,  ant 
even  his  physician,  urged  that  the  small  amount  of  food  that 
he  ate  consumed  was  not  sufficient  to  preserve  the  strcnglt 
of  one  so  advanced  in  years.  To  please  them  he  increased  his 
daily  allowance  to  14  ounces.  He  soon  found  his  old  disor¬ 
ders  reappearing,  so  lie  returned  to  liisjoriginal  12-ounce  al¬ 
lowance  of  food,  fully  convinced  that  in  the  old  age  the  body 
requires  loss  rather  than  more  in  the  way  of  nourishment. 

To  those  of  us  who  think  we  are  slowing  up  at  40,  and 
who  fear  being  down  and  out  at  GO,  "The  Art  of  Living  Long” 
will  be  found  most  profitable  reading. 

Following  Cornaro’s  dictates  is  simply  .trading  a  very  few 
of  the  pleasures  of  the.  flesh  for  more  years  of  happy,  active 
-life.'  ' 

‘Ttjfv' hat  eatij  little  lives  to  oa'  -c.”  '  -c. 


YORK  EVEHJ.NG  SUM 


April  OB<  1919 


Lyons,  Sir  Charles  Henry,  5: 


DEl'ROIT  (HI) 


KVANSV1LI.E  (IN)  JOUHNAI. 
April  1G,  19X9 

CANDLES  TOO  COSTLY 
FOB  umm  TODAY 

OAS  AND  ELECTRICITY  GIVE 
FAR  MORE  LIGHT  FOR 
LESS  MONEY  . 


I’EI'ERSUUKG  (VA)  IMJKX-AWEAl. 
April  11,  1919 


r  #t©le y  recorded  <51 

'jjrdi  V.The  reproduction,  \ 
ftij&Wck  Of.  «' record  cuutuliilug  tl 
aftlpualV  a  .  ' 

lifard. recently  fur  the’ first  111 
Edison,' Ipboruiorf  at  Orange.  N.  J.~  • 

fc^3lV.Vdlaou  celebrated  bis  72ud  birth-*, 
■■Jay-'OU/Febraarjr  11.  The  talk',  which  ; 
tV-Mr,  ..Kdjfon's  first  comment  ■  about  • 


•V^Our;-  ;boya  Miiade'i  good1'  lit .  Krance/i 
a‘j?b^;i»^i^W^uV.baa>a.u«^;iti«4n-^ 
Vjng^p^v I-OurhuUI  l.'ers  lluve  iumlo .] 
•  (t^rata^^urHg^  geiien.elly;'  self-  . 

r^atralut  ,flu  m^Ues  ty.  •  We  a  re  •  prmi  d2 
!?$#«  V«V»i»/Ainnflc«itta  ■  who  rlskptl;) 
'•  cbft^ves^.r  tlte;l|berty;  of  |hr  ,>voi  id,.  I 
^'•••juustVnot;  forget.-,  and  we  *mu»t  ’ 
.iOt’.pecmljj.demiiguguw,! -to  belittle  the  1 
part-^plio*ie.d,‘l»Y  ‘our  .  gallant*  allies.* 
•  rjteh? cutiUHlt.v- lists  tel r the  story.'  .  . 

JV^i»we\;er;protid'we  iiiH.v  he  of  our  ; 
ovv^iacljlevenieiits,; let  us  remember  al- 


MUS1C  TRADE  NEW  YORK 
April  26,  1919 


Thomas  A.  Edison  P rescn Is  (I 
-jTyiMStrfCwIsTApiiT  21.— Then 
tsr till  inventor.  Inis  mmlo  n  nulnl.li 
cohsiti  SUitc  Historical  Museum  at  M 
ot  the  newest  ami  latest  style  of  Hie 
graph,  which  will  be  placed  sale  by  t 
«.f  the  first  Edison  instrument  now 
lion.  The  New  Edison  contains  a 
graphed  by  Mr.  Edison,  anil  an  wwt 
the  Wisconsin  museum,  this  being  • 
/  fact  that  nn  autographed  letter  wo 


Searchlight  from 
Edison’s  Aids  Loan 


Its  Hays,  Dart  from  Roof  of  In¬ 
ventor's  Works  at  West'OrangOi 
Reaching  25  Milos. 


11  LIBERTY  LOAN" 


NEWARK  (MJ)  LEUGEtt  NEWARK  (NJ)  LKIKJKK 

Hay  01,  1919  (U)  Hay  25,  19X9  (U) 


NEWARK  (N.  J.)  L. 


TOWN  PASSES 
j  QUOTA  BY  MORE 


ibullUilie,  In  which  Victory  tan  ljcml- 
jscarehliglit 

n  fliinuunccii 


4iavc  Hern  * . .  .w  Supervising 

tj’riiicipiil  Solomon  Cj.  Straus :  nnil  fW> 
!mcr  prcsiliml  or  the  Town  lliinril  of 


PLAUT  CHORUS  TO  SING  TO 
EDISON  CO.  EMPLOYES 


NEW  YORK  TIMES 
May  13,  19X9  (») 


rsfaoiss 


MiNion-bqliar  Budget  and  325,-  jl  \ 
OOO  Adult  Members  Thought  j  »• 


to  Have  Been  Attained 
jn  Greater  City. 


k^SSSm 


BROOKLYN  (Mif)  TlHIiS 
June  22,  19X9 


PAYTON  (Oil)  HERALD 
June  20,  1919 


EDISON  FAVORS\ 
NATIONS  LEAGUE 


“Wizard,”  73,  Begins  Work  on 
Important  Invention. 

WAS  AT  EMPLOYES’ OUTING 


Institutes  Bonus  System  to 
Reduce  Wastage,  /jj 


HOLLAND  TE!±$ 
OF  ABSURDITIES 
OF  BOLSHEVISTS 

Noted  Writer  Shatters  Claims 
That  Class  Distinction  Arc 
Fostered  Here. . 


Dr.  L.  Jay  Edwards,  of  New  York, 
..Jthor  of  the  41  Holland”  letters  that 
appear,  in  The  Dayton  Journal  daily, 
•«  «  guest  of  John  H.  Pnttqrson  at 
rar  Hills,  /or  several  days,  accom- 


y  Mrs.  Edwards.  A 


'  <1  us  trial  unci  commercial 'circles  in 
tins  country. 

He  Imd  iigurcs  to  prove  that  i 
Henry  Bessemer,  inventor  of  t 
,  Bessemer  steel  process  profited 
the  extent  of  only  $4,000,000  poun.... 
1  J‘"~“  his  invention  which. 


asked*  Drh0jS\var!|IC  «'{} 

i  Besscmerl^no^Edison!  no Schwab,  no 
|  John  H.  Patterson.”  Dr.  Edwards 

••  Wr*  Pat’ 

work  that  he  started  in  Dayton  has 
-acted  world-wide  attention.- 
us^  afternoon  Dr.^ 


THE  PATHFINDER 
(WASHINSTON,  DC) 
June  28,  1919 


life  of  Thomas 


,.,L 


newsboy  on  railroad.  Later  learned  tclcg- 
rauliv  and  worked  as  operator  at  various 
places  in  U.  S.  and. Canada.  Invented 
ninny  tcleiiiapldc  applluuccs,  includlnis 
autoiuntie  repealer,  quadruplex  telegraph, 
printing  lelcltrapli.  etc.  lias  patented  more 
than  91)0  different  Inventions  Including 
carbon  telephone  transmitter,  inlcrolusl- 
uictcr  for  detecting  small  changes  In  tern-  .  ■ 
peraturc,  megaphone,  klnclograph,  klnctov 
phone,  telcscribc,  alkaline  storage  battery, - 


:.  Lives  at  Orange.  Ni 


NEWARK  (NJ)  NEWS 
Juno  20,  19X9 


Big  Variety  of  Events  ! 
For  Edison  Field  Meet 

Wheelbarrow  and  Egg,  Automobile 
and  Bike  Races  on  Bill— Com- , 

I  petitive  Fire  Drill.  | 
Entry  List,  as  Usual,  ,Vcry  Heavy 


NASHVILLE  (TO)  TENNESSEAN 
June  10,  1919 


NEW  YORK  MAIL, 

June  27,  1919 

] 

r> 

DORCHESTER  (HA)  LABOR  NEWS 

June  13,  1919  !  | 

GOLDEN  RULE 

EDISON  REFERS  TO  SAMUEL  GOMPERS  AS  1 

NATION’S  HOPE, 

-AMERICA'S  GRAND  OLD  MAN  OF  LABOR 

■  SAYS  EDISON 

„  ,one  s.ucrv 

iew  in  which  Thorn-  committees,”  he  said.  "The  world  be-  ] 

■  |  r  a[  |  -  d  i. 

ius  w:is  Wstionct 

,V  many  points  rc-  lioiml  committee  is  orsanuml  ami  lie- 

-  Will  Sound  Knell  of  Radical- 

cular  reference  to 

the  part  which  la-  be  easier  to  run  a  small  world  well  than 
he  pence  conference,  it  has  been  in  the  past  to  run  a  b:g 

the  inicnmiionnl  labor  programme  mull  Mr.  Kdison  took  occasion  to  express  i 

that  it  should  be  encouraged  by  maim-  high  icgard  for  the  great  American  I 

nclurers  throughout  the  world.  ‘‘We  labor  lender,4  and  deep  regret  because 
•annul  have  too  many  international  |  of  Mr  Gmnpers*  recent  accident. 

£S  toLi',"7„"r"t|,o  ’isl"  Kc,“! 

1 

BOSTON  (MA)  AMERICAN 

June  22,  1919 

EDISON  ARTISTS  . 

liilflliSi 

imtECITAL  WORK 

Konoral  supervisor.  •  ^ 

In  addition  to  conducting  hits  Individual 

duty  nnd  Hint  they  will  nutAo  found 
wanting  In  Its  performance.” 

^  air.  Kill  non  then  spoko  of  tho,  phono- 

work  which  had  been  Interrupt  .id  some- 

.  for  a  symphony  orchestra  of  .ilnoty-four 
f*1  Jft Closing,  air.  Edison  sal^widlo  then 

“And  wo  nro  trying  to  cot  enough  i 

nrtlats  to  moot  Uio  demnnd.  Tho  re- 

hnvo  secured  *added  popularity  nnaj 

Amy  Ellerman,  *  Olon  Ellison,  tho 

Fleming  Trio  and  Mme,‘.  Mabello 

Wngner-Shank.  Umo.  Florence  For- 
.  noil,  Ida  Gardnor,  Julia  IHolnrlch, 

Also1  bo  with  us.  TIiov  are  Loola 

Kucoy,  Mario  Laurontl  (tho  Metro-  ;  j 

polltan  Opera  Company  baritone),'  !  i 

d" V f  1  o  Kd b*™ olUn a"an  d*  Hn r  1  a n/*  °Ur 

{ 

C33J  \ 

-  - 1 

-  :  AN  EDISON  STOip^/"- 

By  DR.  FRANK  CRANE.  „■ 

.  -There  is  not  less  wit  nor  less  invention,"  "c 

applying  rightly  n  thought  Mef  rads  mn^boo^  has  been  heard! 

ss^wssss  • — - w<  i“i-, 

served  a  talent.”  - 

Also  Lowell:  ,„u  -nt  !lUii  *>rt  oxincMcd, 

bur,"  he  in  turn  having  gotten  it  from  aq 

M.  Schwab  in  the  America^  Magazine  of  a  colloge 

TfeS4i^^;VWsX-atoi-y  a  man  fresh  from  one 
hJ[  beeiFrgraduated  at  the 

limely  confident,  disputed  this  ■ 

The  Sduate’ 'took* ^ut  hisp^icil,  ready  for  another  siege  at 


:  EDISON  TO  BE  REFEREE  AT 
!  OLYMPIC  PARK  SATURDAY 


Scheme  to  '(five  Every‘M'an  LniU-\j 
viduul  .Justice  Is  Boinp  Put. Into. 
Pruotieojal  West  Orange,  N.  J'., 
Laboratory. 


MISFITS  jNOT  PIllED, 

BUT  ARB  MADE' ‘PITS’ 


All  -Mystery  Is  .  Barred  •from  Plant 
and  No' ‘ B usiness'.' Secrets’  Are 
There  to  Arouse .Employes ! 
Suspicions. 


to  the  worlfeds'  the' unknown 
— *  regions  of  "overhead''  and 

oilier  expense.  He  aims  especially  to 
prevent  the  destruction  of  raw  ma¬ 
terial  and  waste  of  "overhead"  by 
imperfect  .  workmanship  ‘due  to 
straining  for  quantity  production. 

He  declares  that  the  plan  amounts 
to  the  first  really  frankly  confidential 

bo r;  that  far  from  opposition  to  the 
unions,  it  offers  full  and  enlightened 

•  Individual  effort  is  recognized  in 
a  way  which  leaves  no  cause  for  com¬ 
plaint  by  the  mass,  he  says,  but 
which  gives  each  man  an  incentive 
for  high  effort.  ■  ■ 


Experiment*  and  .Nut  Examinations 
Used  to  Adjust  Workers  Jo  Any 
Job  They  Think  Tilt,  v  Are  Alvki 
.‘to  Pill.  \  ,  s 

‘WELPARE  WORK’  HELD 

AS  UTTER  FAILURE 


Executive  of  Vast  Organization 
Says  that  Spirit  of  Confidence 
Brings  Out-Efficiency  by  Indi¬ 
viduality  Route. 


By  EDWARD  MARSHALL, 


TOPEKA,  (KS)  CAPITA!. 


DAYTOM  (Oil)  NEWS 
■June  19,  19X9 


NATION’S  LEADERS:  SPEAK 


SYRACUSE  (MY)  HERALD 
Juno  22,  19X9 


-TlfOMAS  A.  EDISON  FOR 

l  LMTOF  nations 


UQSTON  (MA)  HORNING  CI.OUE 
June  22,  1919 

edisondoesn’t  want 

TO  RESTORE  HEARING 


Deafness  Helps  Him  in  His 
Work,  Son  Explains 


MUSIC  THftDKS  (NY) 
July  OX,  19.19 


CHOOSES  MR.  EDISON’S  VOICE  AS  A  THEME 


'  tfmMe  Sam's  Largest  Undersea 
I  * Launched  at  Fore  River  Yards 


PITTSBURGH  (PA)  '-PRESS 

.lu.lv  27,  .19.1.9 


the  MUSIC  TRAUES  (My) 

July  19,  1919 


|  TlJOM&iA-EDISON  PRESENTS  PHONOGl^^H 

AND  RECORDS  TO  VALIANT  CREW  OF  R-34 


Inventor’s  Wife  Makes  Presentation- 


■5U...U.— _ Mr.  Edison  Congratulates  Crew  and  Characterizes  Exploit  j 

Opening  of  New  Epoch  in  Human  Progress 


. .  ,y  model  phonograph  with 

a  Xicir'asHorLnent  "of"  fifty  recuitU  was  ^ 

Tliomus  A.  Edison  to  the  sturdy  crew  or  the  K-U  just 
nrior  to  its  return  ftHcht  t«  Knidnml  lust  wee:,  The 
presentation  was  mmle  at  lloasevell  Held.  Mincola,  I.  I 
■,y  Mrs.  -  . .  " . . 


l.y  Mrs.  I  liain  is  A.  I  "1U  "  1  ‘  ,  ,  lf  „t  flight  to  A 

dipt  l  I  nflcl.l,  1  I,u>)t|,t  r  ,u  «.!!". ,;«>■ 
piinyhig  the  girt  was  a  letter  rruiii  'lhoinas  A.  hdi. 

“an.rLi,  greatly  interested  in  ynlir  exploit.  « 

ft  'n-wj"  » 

tuexloml  In  person  iny  hearty  e,'"g'at"lati“l,l“  i 
accepting  one  of  my  phonographs,  with 


and  carry  the  same  on  your  return  trip  in  commemora¬ 
tion  of  the  flrst  nir  voyage  to  America '! .  . 

“Wishing  you  a  pleasant  and  anrc^retuin*  wiu^wiw* 
iy  compliments  to  you  and  XigggJfJfs^feDisoN 

ed  interest  nml  entertained 
ng  ils  epoch-making  o 
1  English  make  talking  machine 


Phonograph  in 


Tim  Vory'uf ' huw'Vm  'English  make  talking  uinrhiue 
tdiiviug  jazz  reeorda  contributed  much  to  the  enjoyment 
!,t  ihc  crew  on  the  initial  voyage  of  the  gigantic 
^hi^ wmh^^er^dlC^^"a»^  Uis^Heni' 
inc  it  An  unfortunate  mishap  to  the  English  gramo¬ 
phone  rendered  the  machine  hoyoml  repair  whHo,  ojHJw 

f  iiiri'mlcd  hy  Iho1' tulltuig  ninehlne  llirough  the  mialinp 


ftgnVILMS  KW^l 

LIVELY  SESSION  I 
HELD  BY  ELECTRIC  | 
HMLWMS  BOURDj 

Private  Ownership  of  Lines 
Has  Fallen  Down,  Claims 
Eugene  Foss 

I  suIJtalk  BUNKUM  | 
j-  SAYS'  QUACKENBTTfTT 


Control  of  Roads  by  Govern- i 
;  men  During  War  Charged-  I 
Not  Fair  Test.  1 


ROCHESTER  (Mg)  HERALD 
August  OG,  1919 


ST.  LOUIS  (MO)  POST  DISPATCH 
August  05,  1919 


POSTON  (MA)  HERALD 
August  12,  1919 


EDISON  PASSES/ 
HATFOR  SALLIES 

Helps  Amy  During  Visit 
to  Tilton,. N.  H.,  with 
| ..  :  Burroughs  and  Ford 


PARTY’S  CAMPING 
|  EQUIPMENT  LOST 


-..qwt  direction1,  here-torn  Kht- 
and  ns  a  result,  the  Frnnklin  (N.  H.) 
^Salvation  Army  is  richer  by  n  tam¬ 
bourine-full  and  hat-full  of  coins  and 
bills.  Mr.  Edison  (passed  the 
and  tambourine  among*  ““  “"',l 
composed  of  everyone  ... 
could  ride,  wnlk  or  hobble  to  the* 
Idea!  t->  see  hint,  Henry  Ford  nml  j 
John  burroughs  standing  on  the, 
hotel  veranda  together. 

Tho  quest  (or  funds  on  Mr.  Edison’s 
rt  followed  n  mooting  hold  before  tho 


m  audience 


Camping  Equipment  Lost 


PASSAIC  (NJ)  IIERAUD  CAMDEN  (NJ)  POST-TELEGRAPH 

August  11,  1919  August  11,  1919 


NEW  YORK  KVKN.I NC.  WOKI.D 
August  y.3i  19.19 


EDISON  TO  WORK  FOR  U.  s7 


ATTEMPTS  TO  ftET 


■/anis  (he  Experiment  and  Ro 
search  Inslilutlpn  Located 
Near  Academy.  ' 

CASE*  IS  STRONGER,  ' 

!  ADVOCATES  DECLARE 


PITTSDURG  (PA)  DISPATCH 
August  17,  1919 


UOCIIESTEH  (NY)  TIMES 
August  12,  19.19 

fhohms«A^Ihdisair‘'^ 
Had  ComW*Ma, 
Says  Chiropractor 

jsx.'s-m&i 


SPRINGFIELD  (flfl)  REPUBLICAN 
August  1/1,  19,1,9 

LOCAL  INTERESTS 


DtstlnsiiLpt&tf  Vlattom  Stop  in  City 
to?  %'  iov  Mlnutea  on  Way 


August  113,  1919 


CffATtLES  EDISON  **\ 
CENTRES  CIVIC  WORK ’ 


EDISON.  FORD  ANT)  | 

auRROUons  pass  by 


HEADING  (PA)  HERALD 
August  12,  1919 


NOTED  CAMPING  TRIO 
tffENDJGRT  IN  HOTEL 


ST.  PAUL  (TOI)  PIONEER  PRESS 
August  12,  1919 


POSTON  (NA)  IK  N  t 
GLOBE 

August  14,  1919 

ENJOYED  VACATION^ 
FORD  TELLS  BARBER; 


‘Edison  ’  Roads  His  Papor 
i  Regardless  of  Crowd 


NEWSPAPER  ?  (CHICAGO,  It.) 


August  20,  1919  (D) 


Edison’s  Newspaper  Campaigns 

Jl/I  William  Maxwell,  Viir-Pirxitlml  nontax  .1.  lidixnn,  loo. 


TWO  or  llircc  years  ago,  vc  liad  “  prize  contest, 
which  was  extensively  advertised  in  the  magazines. 
We  prepared  some  newspaper  copy  anil  sent  it  to 
oar  dealers,  urging  Lhem  lo  run  Hie  newspaper  co  y 
contemporaneously  with  onr  magazine  ad'  ci'l'snit,- 
In  our  letter,  or  bulletin,  lo  the  dealers,  we  slated  l  nil  we 
proposed  lo  make  up  special  scrapbooks  id  I'eduders 
1  art  t  1 1  connection  with  tins  contest  and  l  at ^sneb 
scrapbooks  would  be  shown  to  Mr.  Edison.  \\  c,  llicrt-forL, 
urged  each  dealer  lo  send  ns  clippings  of  Ins  adver  isen  cuts. 

Somehow  or  other,  onr  bulletin  to  dealers  got  into  li  e 
bands  of  one  of  the  newspaper  papers.  1 '  -V  „  .  |il,  r 

was  Nkwspapbuoom,  Iml  perhaps  it  was.  J  ,-V.,,.t 
literally  look  the  hide  olf  of  ns  by  means  of  i  c  I  t  j 
wldeli  denounced  us  for  asking  onr  dealers  to  do  what  lie 
|  c,  e  e  1  1  1 1  I  e  done  at  our  own  expense.  1 

also  ridiculed  our  slaLement  that  wc  ...tended  to i  show  be 
advertising  scrapbooks  to  Mr.  Edison.  As  “  "‘''  .S1. ',f  fu^ 
we  did  intend  to  show  the  scrapbooks  lo  A  r.  Edison, .  we 
did  show  them  to  him  and  lie  looked-  through  lliein  with  a 
great  deal  of  interest.  Ills  ability  lo  feel  a  genuine  interest 

ill  such  matters  helps  lo  keep  him  young. 

That  minor  point  disposed  i.r,  let  us  lake  up  he  other 
question.  In  this  particular  ease,  ..lore  ll.au  S..00U i  i.r  our 
dealers  responded  lo  our  request  and  r.... 
advertising  in  conjunction  with  onr  magazine  advertising. 
In  other  words,  the  dealers  used  about  ten  limes  as  nliieli 
newspaper  space  as  we  could  have  alVorded  lo  use,  and  the 
editor  in  question  was  quarreling  with  a  policy  which 
brought  inure  money  into  the  cash  drawers  of  tin-  news¬ 
papers  Ll uni  any  other  policy  we  could  have  adopLed. 

There  seems  lo  be  an  impression  abroad  that  we  believe 
a  phonograph  ninnufncliircr  should  spend  all  of  his  appropri¬ 
ation  in  magazines  and  farm  papers  and  none  of  it  in  news¬ 
papers.  There  is  probably  no  uuiuuraclurcr  who  believes 
more  fully  in  newspaper  advertising  than  wc  do,  1ml  until 
recciilly  wc  have  lieen  unable  lo  linil  a  satisfactory  way 
of  spending  our  moiicy  in  the  newspapers. 

Five  or  six  ycurs'-ngo  wc  rail  a  newspaper  campaign  at 
about  200  central  points  nail  iqqiciulcd  the  mimes  and 


A  situation  thus  arose  where  it  seemed  neccss 
to  our  dealers  that  wc  would  do  no  newspaper  i 
in  any  dealer's  town,  but  that  wc  would  silver 
sivcly  in  the  magazines  and  furnish  dealers  with 
copy  which  interlocked  with  our  magazine  c 
pointed  out  to  merchants  handling  our  line  LhaL 
of  limited  dealer  representation  instilled  our 
bearing  the  entire  expense  of  local  newspaper  a 
This  policy  has  been  in  elfect  for  several  years  an 


successful,  so  far  as  these  200  towns  were  concerned,  and 
Lhc  dealers  in  these  particular  towns  were  highly  pleased, 
Iml  they  acted  a  good  deal  like  the  ghost  which  ran  a  foot 
race  with  Nigger  Sain.  Sam  was  walking  by  a  graveyard 
one  night  ami  a  ghost  started  after  him.  Sam  outran  the 
ghost  for  about  a  mile  and  then  sal  down,  exhausted.  The 
ghost,  ditching  up  with  him,  sal  down  beside  Sam  mid  said: 
“That  was  a  mighty  line  race  wc  had;  let’s  have  another.” 
When  our  campaign  was  over,  the  dealers  ill  these  200 
towns  said  lo  ns:  “That  was  mighty  line  advertising  you 
did;  let’s  have  sonic  more  of  it.”  When  we  suggested  that 
maybe  they  might  do  a  little  advertising  themselves  in 
adiiition  lo  the  small  space  they  had  been  using  in  conjunc¬ 
tion  with  our  advertising,  they  were  shocked  at  the  idea. 
Meanwhile,  in  the  3,000  odd  towns  wherein  we  had  done 
1IO  advertising,  the  dealers  were  complaining  and  refusing 
lo  put  forth  any  noteworthy  sales  effort  until  we  had  run 
an  advertising  campaign  in  their  respective  towns. 


Nigger  Ham  and  the  ghost. 

I  mil  inclined  lo  believe  that  during  Hie  next  twelve 
mouths,  there  will  be  more  inches  of  Edison  advertising 
111  the  newspapers  of  the  United  Stales  and  Canuda-'tliiiu 
•of  .any  other  phonograph. 


Hi 


HUDSON  (NY )  HEG1STEU 
September  .10,  19.19 


Officials  of  Orange,  N.  J.,  Fac¬ 
tory  Favorably  Impressed;  May 
Establish  Branch  in  This  City 


Vico  President,  Secretary  Here 
Two  Days  in  Conference  With 
J.  T.  Fitzgerald  of  Music  House 


EDISON'S  VOICE  IN  RECORDS 

Inventor  of  Phonograph,  for  the  First 
Time,  Makes  Short  Speech  Which 

iun,  wholn  vent  oil  I  ho 


S  V.*|ie  wnr  will  live  vividly 


shitll  nut  forget  tl.elr  brother*  In  Mffll; 
who  wore  the  uniforms  urour.ulllUh^: 

Fr«nre.ll<l'n,«|t  •  Hrlttil'n,  Italy  ami  Bel* , 

Klum  should  for  nil  lll,JJ“rlu 


MOVIES  ^HONOGBAPH 


I  Bid— stxii 


CINCINNATI  (Oil)  TIUIIUNK  .SUNDAY,  HOVKMIIKH  02 ,  19J-J 


THE  CINCINNATI  COMMERCIAL  TRIBUNE,  SUNDAY,  NOVEMBER '2 


THE  DAY  OF  THE  BLUE  SHIRT:  OTHER  ;NEWS  OF 
_  THE  WEEK  ON  LITTLE  MANHATTAN  ISLAND 


(Oil)  HEWS  Houeihber  02,  1919 

IIENRY  MOJU/AfrrYiXiTANB  WIl'-E  ARRIVE  FROM  EUROPE 
The  farmer  Ambassador  to  Turkey  has  just  completed  lus  work  as 
the  head  ol  the  Invest!, ;:.tinC  Committee  h.  Poland.  .Announcement  was 
made  the  other  day  ol  his  decoration  lor  special  services  durinc  the  war. 


-ERIE  MAN  Hfr'., 
MUSIC  ADVISOR 


jiicbt.  ^Lofi-y  linn  jv.bt  •  rcturnod', 
f rom  -Uic  Kilison  jOant. 


HU001U.YH  (NX)  eagle  lUNGHrtHTON  (NX)  SUM  MEW  YORK  EVENING  SUN 

December  13,  .1.9.19  Uoccniticr  09,  1919  December  10,  19.1.9 

fJlwTraiNG" 

.  SUBMARINE  ‘EARS’ 

Destroyer  to  Play  Game  in 

ll.o  Huh  IICV.T  lmi'11  Iiblo  to  ■i>rnul  Mm  "."V'i.iV...  ..i  imil.  . . .  ..mil  i  in  l  ! 

knowldiio  ot  HI..  I.IpiiI  pool  of  Aincrl-j  .•im... mi.  (  |  ib. 

riildivr  .-f  l,.aiijlik«n«.lo  "III  Ki.r.-.iilj  . . i,  i»  •i  in.  u»:s.::..  si  -:,  j 


BURROUGHS  HI  THE  MOVIES. 

1  .  i t\n I!  II  HOTi  »>r  fniim 


I.  ’vnllimlly  nil  Hurrmislia  li'.» 
;or  tin*,  ucccplunco  of  Whitman 


. 


■US'lHATEI) 


FLIES  STRAIGHT  UP 


//  /yeocK‘ 


MEW  YORK  ILLUSTRATED  MEWS 


IJccciriier  19,  1919 


EDISON'  SEESMG 

futOre  in  opera 

FOR  GIRL  SINGER 

j  OimiKo,  N.  J.,  Dec.  18.— LUllc  8-yenr-old 
I  Uessiu  Connell  Harrington,  of  New  York, 
in  a  true  musical  prodigy  and  a  great  future 
as  an  operatic  star  awaila  her,  Thomas  A. 
Edison,  the  wizard,  declared  this  afternoon 
I  after  he  had  listened  to  the  little  girl  render 


rly  head, 


Page  III 


► 


"  PI1QM0GRAPU  -  GENERAL" 

JAZZ  GEMS  BY  LAUDER  SINGS 
EUROPE^  BAND  OF  COURTSHIP 


Organization  That  Drove  Scottish  Star’s  Latest  Itcc- 
"  France  Mail  Makes  old  Is  As  chin 

Records  Con.cdv 


FOLK  DANCES 
AREPOPULAR 

Phonograph  Children’s  De¬ 
light  at  Up-to-Datc 
'  Playgrounds 


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